From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 25 11:32:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07682 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:32:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07677 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:32:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA06301; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:32:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA28784; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:32:29 -0700 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:32:29 -0700 Message-Id: <199801251932.MAA28784@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Andreas Klemm , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why not CVS server support ? In-Reply-To: <19980125183247.09801@follo.net> References: <19980125175618.10691@klemm.gtn.com> <19980125183247.09801@follo.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Hi ! > > > > Why don't we support cvs server in the base OS ? > > (I assume you mean the cvs pserver mode?) Why would we want to? And what gives you the impression we don't support it? I'm using cvs pserver mode with the cvs that was distributed in FreeBSD. It works fine, but like all CVS installation it requires setup of the CVS server and such, so you can't support it 'out of the box' anymore than it already is. If you mean why doesn't freefall support it, it's because of security and use. > pserver mode has had a few security violations in the past, and it > wouldn't surprise me if has been turned of for that reason. It takes a bit of work to make pserver mode secure, and those security precautions simply weren't taken since the remote CVS stuff doesn't work well enough to use it on a regular basis. Nate