Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 00:36:52 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup-mirror port Message-ID: <20010923003652.N24981@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <W$vQ4uAoCWr7Ewsy@reiteration.net>; from freebsd-lists@reiteration.net on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:10:16AM %2B0100 References: <W$vQ4uAoCWr7Ewsy@reiteration.net>
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John <freebsd-lists@reiteration.net> probably said: > Connected to cvsup-master.freebsd.org > No record for server "freefall.freebsd.org" in > "/home/cvsupin/.cvsup/auth" > CVSup update ends at 2001-09-23 04:07:06 > > cvspasswd generates a password line comprising of my email address and a > md5 hash and instructs me to place the string > cvsup-master.freebsd.org:email@your.domain:xxxxxx: (where xxxx is your > plaintext password) into auth and to send the md5 hash string in a > secure email to the upstream mirror admin (in this case cvsup- > master.freebsd.org (aka freefall.freebsd.org) > > The question is, am I doing this correctly (I don't need write access to > the upstream repository, so why the personal login) who would I need to > contact, and what is their public key? I'd assume that it's so cvsup-master is only used by the mirrors and not j. random public. You don't have to cvsup your mirror from cvsup-master, of course. I run mirrors at the two sites where I have a lot of machines to save bandwidth and cpu time on the official mirrors, but I just cvsup from one of the public mirrors ... P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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