Question on Build Scripts

Michael Dorfman · Post by **Michael Dorfman** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:01 am

What's the recommended practice for username/password combinations in automated buld scripts? Should I set up a separate user for this purpose? (Presumably, this would require a license.) Anything different I should do vis-a-vis security/access rights?

Or, is it better to use a standard developer's account, and override the working folder so as not to screw up their dev environment?

Ideas?

Michael Dorfman

dan · Post by **dan** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:58 am

If your build script modifies the tree, you might want to pay for an extra license, so that history entries can differentiate between build system changes and other users' changes. However, if it is read-only, any Vault account should work fine.

You definitely don't want the build script to use the working folder of a developer though. Here, we do a full get to a non-working folder for each build.