[p4] Trying to sort out a protection issue - never mind...

[Ivey, William]

We already use ip-specific protections on several machines, but in this case,
I didn't want super granted to an ID on a commonly available server machine.
(Currently I have ip-specific review rights for some build machines, and
admin for the main server. Super hasn't really been required anywhere, yet.)

I thought, the last time I looked, that Perforce was limiting non-human
licenses to two? (An extra license wouldn't solve this issue for me, but
there could be other situations.) IIRC, that was a discussion here a year
or so back?

-Wm



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Cowham [mailto:robert at vaccaperna.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:14 AM
> To: 'Weintraub, David'; Ivey, William; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: RE: [p4] Trying to sort out a protection issue - 
> never mind...
> 
> 
> One extra wrinkle:
> 
> Use perforce protections to let the superuser be superuser only from a
> specific IP address.
> 
> If you ask Perforce nicely, they will probably give you a 
> free licence for
> this purpose.
> 
> As to the timeout, zero is fine as long as the user isn't in any other
> groups with non-zero timeout (at which point zero gets 
> ignored). In such
> cases, a timeout of 99999999 (8 x 9) is good - 9 x 9 hits the 
> overflow bug
> where logging in on one machine logs you out on another (this 
> is superflous
> for David's one user in one group on one machine, but may 
> save you some time
> if you vary the recipe slightly).
> 
> Robert 
>