Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:43:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone know how anoncvs actually works? Message-ID: <199608031843.MAA16352@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199608031829.MAA16287@rocky.mt.sri.com> References: <1124.839074993@time.cdrom.com> <199608031829.MAA16287@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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> > 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. Yep, look at freefall:/f/OpenBSD/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/src In particular, the cvswrite and readonly_fs changes. If need be, you could pull them out and/or drop the original CVS 1.8.1 distribution on top of the sources and do a diff to see what has changed. Nate
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