On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:33:47PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >>I guess we could have setup.exe deny access to sources.redhat.com IP >>address, though... > >That will only work briefly. Eventually someone will strip out that >limitation, build a replacement, and post it on some website somewhere. > >Better solution would be to disallow *anonymous* rsync to cygwin-ftp >repository. Those who need to rsync to cygwin-ftp can do it using >authentication.
That would disallow mirrors, unfortunately. We don't give special accounts to people who are mirroring sources.redhat.com via rsync. I am not particularly worried about people building their own version of cygwin, actually. I don't think it will be a wildly popular item. cgf
