From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 1 8:54: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from yez.hyperreal.org (dsl027-182-008.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.27.182.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6D3A37B423 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@collab.net) Received: (qmail 2752 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Jun 2001 15:55:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jun 2001 15:55:16 -0000 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:55:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Behlendorf X-X-Sender: To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Subject: Re: Apache Software Foundation Server compromised, resecured. (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1 Jun 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > You don't need passwords to run CVS against a remote repository. All > you need is 'CVSROOT=user@server:/path/to/repo' and 'CVS_RSH=ssh'. For those who use windows and mac GUI CVS clients, pserver's a requirement. IMHO, passwords are neither better nor worse, necessarily, than keys, in authenticating to a server. The basic difference is between "what you know" and "what you have". I'm as worried about people who have poor password management practices, as I am about people whose home or work machines where their private keys are may not be the most secure. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message