From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 1 6:47: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE7537B423 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 06:47:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA58898; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:47:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Brian Behlendorf Cc: Alex Holst , Subject: Re: Apache Software Foundation Server compromised, resecured. (fwd) References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 01 Jun 2001 15:47:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Behlendorf writes: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Alex Holst wrote: > > I was surprised when I read about the compromise, because it gives the > > impression that people are still using passwords (as opposed to keys > > with passphrases) for authentication in this day and age. Is that > > correct? If so, why is that? > CVS pserver. You don't need passwords to run CVS against a remote repository. All you need is 'CVSROOT=user@server:/path/to/repo' and 'CVS_RSH=ssh'. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message