From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 9 22: 8:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D8137B405 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:08:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ss11232 (203-79-72-40.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.72.40]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4075D1B2E for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:08:29 +1300 (NZDT) From: rshea@opendoor.co.nz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:07:21 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: cvs /default inetd.conf - reassurance please Message-ID: <3C1507E9.10562.13C0ED73@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi - I'm in the process of allowing W9x/W2K clients access to the cvs on a FreeBSD box. I find that both Tortoise and WinCVS require that the inetd.conf entry for cvspserver include the --allow-root option. Are there any hidden gotchas in including this ? I can't find any reference to this option at all in the FreeBSD man page for cvs but as far as I understand it the option is to restrict the repositories which can be accessed through cvspserver which _sounds_ ok ... I haven't yet done this and I would just like someone to reassure me that it's an OK thing to do from a FreeBSD point of view. Whilst I'm here the O'Reilly 'CVS Pocket Ref' says that the cvs server runs briefly as root when it starts (implying a potential security risk). Because I'm not having much joy talking to CVS I'm having trouble figuring this out (with ps I mean) ... does the cvs server start only at boot or every time a client requests service ? thanks richard shea. ***************************************************** Open Door Ltd PO Box 119-46 Wellington, NZ PH +64 4 384 7639 FX +64 4 384 7672 ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message