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Re: remote cvs access - recommendations
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: remote cvs access - recommendations |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:28:08 -0400 (EDT) |
address@hidden writes:
>
> on a related issue, i setup a pserver and was horrified to discover that
> when i issued a "cvs login", it was ignoring $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd and
> instead was authenticating using /etc/shadow. i inadvertantly sent a
> plaintext password over the internet!
It doesn't "ignore" CVSROOT/passwd, it just uses /etc/shadow by default
if the user isn't found in CVSROOT/passwd. You can disable that in your
CVSROOT/config file, but that won't stop you from entering your system
password. It may make you feel a bit better to know that the password
isn't sent as plaintext, it's scrambled (but the scrambling is easy to
reverse).
> it said to look at the "remote repositories" sectionof cederqvist.
> following the link, i can't find any section called "remote
> repositories" in the table of contents. was this section renamed?
No, it's section 2.9. Click on "Contents" to see the complete Table of
Contents (or just click on section 2 and work your way down).
It sounds like you could benefit from reading the whole thing.
-Larry Jones
Shut up and go get me some antiseptic. -- Calvin