[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs