[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS anonymous access enhancement proposal

[Mathieu Roy]

Vincent Caron <address@hidden> said:

> 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

I'll do that with the new backend script that will be needed soon.

>    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)

Fine.

> 
> 
> 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).
> 
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