Basic Perforce Administration
A. User maintenance tasks
1. Resetting passwords
2. Creating users / Deleting users / Setting user access
3. Disabling the automatic creation of users
4. Cleaning up files left open by former users
B. Administrative operations
1. Setting the server security level
2. Obliterating files to reclaim disk space
3. Editing submitted changelists
4. Verifying server integrity
5. Defining files types to control Perforce's file type detection mechanism
6. Use of the -f flag to force operation
In perforce, There are 2 Types of authentication menthods.
1. passwords
2. tickets
Login to Perforce
Logout to the perforce
Server security levels
Perforce superusers can configure server-wide password usage requirements, password strength enforcement, and supported methods of user/server authentication by setting
the security counter. To change the security counter, issue the command:
p4 counter -f security seclevel
where seclevel is 0, 1, 2, or 3. After setting the counter, stop and restart the server.
The default security level is 0: passwords are not required, and password strength is not enforced.
To ensure that all users have passwords, use security level 1. Users of old client programs may still enter weak passwords.
To ensure that all users have strong passwords, use security level 2.
To require that all users have strong passwords, and to require the use of session-based authentication, use security level 3 and current Perforce client software.
Resetting user passwords
Creating users
Preventing creation of users
1. Create a New p4 group or existing groups
2. Set P4 access to that Groups using
and add following..
write group p4users * //...
Deleting obsolete users
Reverting files left open by obsolete users
For example, if the output of p4 opened shows:
//depot/main/code/file.c#8 - edit default change (txt) by jim@stlouis
you can delete the "stlouis" client workspace specification with:
Deleting a client workspace specification automatically reverts all files opened in that workspace, and also removes that workspace’s “have list”.
Running from inetd on UNIX
To have p4d start up only when connections are
made to it, using inetd and p4d -i, add the following line to /etc/inetd.conf:
p4dservice stream tcp nowait username /usr/local/bin/p4d p4d -i -rp4droot
and add the following to /etc/services:
where:
--> p4dservice is the service name you choose for this Perforce server
--> /usr/local/bin is the directory holding your p4d binary
--> p4droot is the root directory (P4DROOT) to use for this Perforce server (for example, /usr/local/p4d)
--> username is the UNIX user name to use for running this Perforce server
--> nnnn is the port number for this Perforce server to use
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