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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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