Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:43:53 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why not CVS server support ? Message-ID: <19980125204353.52228@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199801251932.MAA28784@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 12:32:29PM -0700 References: <19980125175618.10691@klemm.gtn.com> <19980125183247.09801@follo.net> <199801251932.MAA28784@mt.sri.com>
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On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 12:32:29PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > > 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? Our /usr/src/contrib/cvs sources looked a bit stripped down. Somewhere (I think in the OpenBSD sources) I saw a sever subdir, that I didn't see in our sources. So I was under the impression, that we were are missing something. > > 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. Ok, thanks for the info ! -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD''
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