Re: CVS corruption/mistagging?

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- --On Wednesday, August 15, 2007 20:57:14 +0200 Magnus Hagander
<magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:11:35 +0200 Peter Eisentraut
>> <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>>> Am Mittwoch, 15. August 2007 04:20 schrieb Tom Lane:
>>>> we should at least log such commands, and maybe disallow to anyone
>>>> except Marc's "pgsql" account.
>>> I don't think we should disallow it. Or otherwise we might one day be stuck
>>> if we need to release while some specific person is on vacation.
>>
>> This isn't a big issue ... note that the 'restriction' is easy to remove
>> ... you checkout CVSROOT, modify taginfo and comment out the ALL l ine and
>> check that in ...
>>
>> What this will prevent is an 'accidental tagging' ... you would have to
>> consciously remove the restriction .. but its something anyone could do ...
>>
>>> I never understood why tagging uses a special account anyway. It should be
>>> done as the person doing the tagging.
>>
>> Agreed, I'm going to start doing it as myself from now on ... I'm not even
>> 100% certain *why* I started doing it as pgsql in the first place ...
>
> If you're doing that, we should probably just delete the pgsql userid
> from the system? Or at least change it so it doesn't have 'dev'
> permissions. That way you can't do it wrong in that direction ;-)
> Seems reasonable?

there is no pgsql user *on* cvs.postgresql.org, at least there wasn't when I
logged on last night:

cvs# grep pgsql /etc/passwd
cvs#

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