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Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?


From: Greg A. Woods
Subject: Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:48:21 -0500 (EST)

[ On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 14:18:53 (-0500), Larry Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?
>
> Greg A. Woods writes:
> > 
> > Telnet and rlogin and similar still provide on heck of a lot more
> > accountability (over a trusted network) than pserver could ever possibly
> > do.
> 
> I disagree.

Well you're free do disagree of course, but you are _very_ wrong.

Rsh (and telnet, though one can't use telnet as-is for CVS) provide
almost infinitely more accountability (over a trusted network) than CVS
with pserver alone could ever possibly manage.  If this isn't
self-obvious to you then you really need to study basic trusted
computing and how it's been applied and realized (to the extent that it
can be realized) in the traditional Unix environment.

(oh, and of course I mean to imply that this comparison is with normal
Unix-like hosts as both client and server)

(keep in mind that RSH can be trivially used with even more trust over a
host-based IPsec VPN too)

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                                                Greg A. Woods

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