Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 03:49:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> To: itojun@itojun.org Cc: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs pserver mode Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970917034833.5253L-100000@zen.cypher.net> In-Reply-To: <19600.874477702@itojun.csl.sony.co.jp>
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i'm not sure, but you may be able to use something like rsync to accomplish your goal by having accounts for these folks on your machine with shell set to something nonexistent. just a guess. On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 itojun@itojun.org wrote: > >> does any of you have trouble using pserver mode of cvs? > >First, don't use pserver. It sucks. Badly. It stores unencrypted > >passwords on the clients disk and anyone with a shell on the server an > >steal connections (and hence passwords) from users connecting. Bad. > >Secondly, you need the --allow-root option to tell it what repositories to > >use. This is new in 1.9.10 or something like that. > > Thanks very much for the comment (and to Julian), I'll keep myself > away from pserver. > > My goal is to have a way to publish half-public source code to > 20 or so people, without giving them an account on my machine. > (they won't make changes to my repository) > Options seems to be as follows, but I don't know which is good/bad. > - cvs pserver (should stay away from this) > - anonymous cvs + some modification > (how to set it up? OpenBSD people uses this to keep them in sync) > - cvsupd + some modification > (current version has no authentication, it seems) > - give an account (say, "mygroup") to them and use rsh/ssh > > Please let me know your opinion. Thanks! > > itojun >
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