[p4] Multiple clients - single user

[Brough, Nicolas (Contractor)]

Absolutely.  We use p4ftpd, and P4Web and most read-only users are happy
with them.  But sometimes it's good to have the ability to look at
Perforce with the same view as the developers.

Regards, Nic

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-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Janulewicz [mailto:MJanulewicz at greendotcorp.com] 
Sent: 19 June 2007 17:42
To: dlewis78731 at gmail.com; Brough, Nicolas (Contractor)
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: RE: [p4] Multiple clients - single user

Also, you might want to look into p4ftpd for read-only access. It's
basically an all-or-none proposition for whatever tree/branch you
include, but we have documentation, standard installers for development
assemblies, etc. in there that people often have to view from other
non-development groups. The URL's are prettier than P4Web (which we also
use, oddly enough, to hook up to our reviews.)

Also, the Perforce installer itself is in there so people can get it and
install it without already having Perforce installed :) .


-Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Dave Lewis
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:43 AM
To: Brough, Nicolas (Contractor)
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Multiple clients - single user

if you just want read-only, one of the web clients, like P4DB can give
read access to any number of people. I hadn't thought about the
licensing implications, but I suspect that perforce doesn't care about
read-only access.

dave


On 6/19/07, Brough, Nicolas (Contractor) <BroughN2 at bp.com> wrote:
> >I doubt a 4-person shop would encounter this situation, but I can't
> imagine
> >what a SOX or ISO compliance audit would think about using a single
> shared
> >account for all changes made to the system.
>
> Our SOX people really didn't like the idea, until I pointed out that
our
> shared user was read-only.
>
> Also, our teams rely on knowing exactly who broke it, because the
person
> who broke it is generally the best person to fix it (or at least
explain
> why they broke it)
>
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