From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 25 12:10:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13399 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13260 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:09:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id UAA07988; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:45:14 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA12004; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:43:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980125204353.52228@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:43:53 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Nate Williams Cc: Eivind Eklund , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why not CVS server support ? References: <19980125175618.10691@klemm.gtn.com> <19980125183247.09801@follo.net> <199801251932.MAA28784@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199801251932.MAA28784@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 12:32:29PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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''