From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 5 09:26:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA28585 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (root@skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA28577 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA18011 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 17:26:03 +0100 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (actually host tees) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Mon, 5 Aug 1996 17:25:30 +0100 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) id RAA05131; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 17:24:42 +0100 To: Nate Williams Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone know how anoncvs actually works? References: <1124.839074993@time.cdrom.com> <199608031829.MAA16287@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Paul Richards Date: 05 Aug 1996 17:24:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:29:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <57u3uher3p.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams writes: > > > It might be something we should set up, just to give complete coverage > > (then we could say we offered the repository via CTM, WWW, sup, cvsup, > > FTP and anoncvs - how many more options could one want? ;-). > > > > Anyway, I'd like to find out what's involved first since the security > > implications of what little I've been able to puzzle out seem fuzzy. > > I *think* they have a special 'anoncvs' account that uses a version of > cvs which disables all operations that would change the repository. I spoke to them about anoncvs because I was interested in it for Apache. The bottom line is that they have a mirror tree that is used for anoncvs so the *real* tree is never accessed. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155