[cvsnt] Can I use pserver on Linux under not root account?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Jul 19 14:10:28 BST 2004


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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:08:18 +0100, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org>
wrote:

>>I believe cvsd is designed only for standard Unix cvs, although you
>could ask the author whether he's prepared to support cvsnt - it's not
>something I can do anything about as it's entirely a separate
>application.
>
Also, cvsd is pserver only, which makes it inherently insecure...
there seems to me to be no point in trying to make a chroot if you're
going to send all your passwords in plaintext.

Tony




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