Whats stopping people from implementing this?
Thanks Pankaj
From: "Mark D. Baushke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pankaj Garg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CVS security question Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:10:49 -0800
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Pankaj Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am a new user of CVS. I setup CVS server on my linux box. I want two users
> to have check-in access to my repository and i want to use SSH. To use SSH i
> need to make shell accounts for those two users. Now because these two users
> have shell account and have write access to my repository, they can
> essentially login in my CVS server box and do an rm -fR on my whole
> repository. Is there a way to prevent this?
This topic has been recently discussed. See the thread starting here: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-01/msg00188.html
Note that you can also make "anonymous cvs" access available via SSH if you wish. Details are listed here in this article by Joey Hess:
http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/sshcvs/
(a copy of it may also be found here if the first site is busy or down):
http://www.blacksheepnetworks.com/security/resources/sshcvs/
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-- Pankaj Garg www.intellectualheaven.com
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