[Savannah-hackers] CVS anonymous access enhancement proposal

[Vincent Caron]

Hello hackers,

  after seeing some recurring issues from people migrating 
projects/usage from SourceForge (that includes me!), I have some 'fixes' 
to propose to you, comments on each one are very welcome :

1- SourceForge and many other sites tend to use the convention 
'anonymous/(empty)' as a convention for the anonymous pserver access. 
Wishes in order of preference :

  1a- modify sv_cvs so that both account 'anoncvs:anoncvs' and 
'anonymous:' are created

  1b- write a script that updates all untouched CVSROOT/passwd from 
Savannah projects to add retroactively the 'anonymous:' user

  1c- maybe prefer documenting the 'anonymous:(empty)' access in the 
Savannah docs (in 5 years experience with CVS I believe it is the most 
widely used and expected)


2- The handy sv.gnu.org alias to savannah.gnu.org is not listening for 
incoming pserver (2401/TCP). If it does not compromise the security 
scheme of Savannah, it would be useful if we could pserver' on 
sv.gnu.org directly (hence the CC to Paul).