From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 20: 4:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38AE37B422 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (8.8.8/) via ESMTP id UAA00518 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:04:48 -0700 (PDT) env-from (ranga@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Message-Id: <200009170304.UAA00518@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating Sources via SSH & CVS In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:58:20 PDT." <39C3FB0C.C2593618@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:04:48 -0700 From: Sriranga Veeraraghavan Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I really doubt you could do that, but why would you want to? It's > not like upgrading your sources needs to be a secret... The primary reason is force of habit. I use ssh (CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh) to obtain OpenBSD sources and I used to use the same method to access a corporate CVS repository via the internet (sources needed to be encrypted in transit between the home office and branches). The second reason is that I would prefer that no one snoop on my network related activities. ----ranga To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message