Date: 05 Aug 1996 17:24:42 +0100 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> 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: <57u3uher3p.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:29:11 -0600 (MDT) References: <1124.839074993@time.cdrom.com> <199608031829.MAA16287@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> writes: > > > 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. I spoke to them about anoncvs because I was interested in it for Apache. The bottom line is that they have a mirror tree that is used for anoncvs so the *real* tree is never accessed. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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