Re: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

2000-04-12 Thread Mitch Davis
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > I'd like to see both here, if the timestamps are exactly > the same assume its the same, otherwise take the time to open the > local file and run it through MD5 and compare it to the checksum > in the local CVS/Entries to make sure. We might need an option to > forc

Re: CVS security

2000-04-12 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
AFAIK there are three approaches: The most common is to run the server in 'ssh mode' where the clients ALWAYS talk to the server with ssh (or rsh possibly if your network is already secure enough) for all traffic. ssh handles the authentication, and the cvs on the server assumes you are

Re: multiple repositories.

2000-04-12 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
> Also... Since I'm on the subject... I have these four distinct repositories > and do not want to allow access from one to the other.. Could I have > accomplished this with one repository Say I have usr/local/cvsroot/ as the > root with dev and tech-sup underneath the root... Could I

Re: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

2000-04-12 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
I'd like to see both here, if the timestamps are exactly the same assume its the same, otherwise take the time to open the local file and run it through MD5 and compare it to the checksum in the local CVS/Entries to make sure. We might need an option to force one of three possible modes (time

Re: CVS security

2000-04-12 Thread Mitch Davis
Gregory Propf wrote: > > Mainly, what I would like is just to have cvs talk over > a secure socket so that usernames and passwords are encrypted. > Is there a way to do this? > I have used ssh to do port forwarding for cvs but the result is a > kludge. Yes, trying to use ssh to forward port 240

RE: multiple repositories.

2000-04-12 Thread $B8q9>1QN4(B
From: Gary Pinkham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: multiple repositories. Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 05:05:35 +0900 (JST) | I put | | #!/bin/sh | /bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs1 --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs2 | --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs3 --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs4 pserver |

Re: A Question on Binary Files

2000-04-12 Thread Hilary Cheng
Hi All, Thanks you for all your reply :D. I can commit my binary files w/o any problem. But I confuse about CVS binary handling. Here is my case : At the First, I use NT CVS version as a pserver to serve all our programmers. They are using WinCVS as Front End. As one of them upload binary fi

RE: multiple repositories.

2000-04-12 Thread Chris Cameron
On Thursday, April 13, 2000 6:03 AM, Gary Pinkham [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I put > > #!/bin/sh > /bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs1 --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs2 > --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs3 --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs4 pserver Don't pass cvs as a parameter to cvs and it should

CVS security

2000-04-12 Thread Gregory Propf
I'm new to the list. My name is Gregory Propf and I'm a programmer in Florida, USA. I'm trying to coordinate programming efforts across multiple developers who write code offsite. I would like to use cvs but am concerned about security. I've played around with Kerberos but can't get it working

Test: can anyone see this

2000-04-12 Thread William K. Gibson
I sent a message earlier and it did not show up in this list. Can anyone see this message? --Kerr Gibson 1stDesk Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Double byte characters and CVS

2000-04-12 Thread Sara Koehler
Greetings, Is there a CVS version for the Japanese language? If not, would checking all japanese text in as binary work? I couldn't find anything in the manual for double byte characters of the Japanese language. Thanks! Sara Koehler Berbee 5520 Research Park Dr. Madison, WI 53711 [EMAIL

Re: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

2000-04-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Jonathan! > Is a one-way hash such as MD5 really superior to a CRC here? I believe that > CRC's are substantially cheaper to compute, which could be relevant in the > case of large projects. The nonrepudiability and resistance to forgery that > recommend one-way hashes for cryptographic

Re: multiple repositories.

2000-04-12 Thread Gary Pinkham
I put #!/bin/sh /bin/cvs cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs1 --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs2 --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs3 --allow-root=/usr/local/cvs4 pserver into cvs.sh then I added cvsserve stream tcp nowait root /etc/inet/cvs.sh into inetd.conf... when I try to do a cvs login I get the foll

Re: multiple repositories.

2000-04-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 11:20:50AM -0400, Gary Pinkham wrote: > Could someone point me in the right direction for setting up a shell script for > inetd to call since I have 4 repositories and can only fit three in inetd... I > basically did /bin/cvs cvs --allow-root/usr/local/cvsroot (blah blah

Re: Bug in rcs.c ?

2000-04-12 Thread David L. Martin
Jesper, >During the move from my MKS/SI repository to >CVS I found this thing: > >In src/rcs.c line 4068 (CVS-1.10.8) there is a >strncmp which fails, due to 'log' is NULL. > >I added a check for log != NULL and the program >run fine again. > >Is this a bug or has something in the conversion >gon

Re: A Question on Binary Files

2000-04-12 Thread Ulrik Sandberg
Hilary Cheng wrote: > > Hi All, > > I would like to ask a question on binary files. For the right now, I > am > using cvs-1.10 and WinCVS as Front End. I have been imported the > binary files as binary type in the cvs. and then use admin function to > turn it binary. But no matter what kinds

Re: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

2000-04-12 Thread Jonathan M. Gilligan
Is a one-way hash such as MD5 really superior to a CRC here? I believe that CRC's are substantially cheaper to compute, which could be relevant in the case of large projects. The nonrepudiability and resistance to forgery that recommend one-way hashes for cryptographic protocols seem kind of i

Re: Disk space usage (was: Re: UNIX version doesn't handle ^M in Entries/Repository if DOS ver used)

2000-04-12 Thread Paul Sander
With the changes I mentioned in an earlier post (modifying RCS to do the compression), the routine that opens files recognized the magic numbers and behaved accordingly. Invoking the compression factor could also be changed by any program that could modify the RCS file. Our experience with this

Re: A Question on Binary Files

2000-04-12 Thread Martin Roehrig
Hi Hilary, Hilary Cheng schrieb: > Hi All, > > I would like to ask a question on binary files. For the right now, I > am > using cvs-1.10 and WinCVS as Front End. I have been imported the > binary files as binary type in the cvs. i.e. you used cvs add -kb myfile.bin and cvs commit myf

multiple repositories.

2000-04-12 Thread Gary Pinkham
Could someone point me in the right direction for setting up a shell script for inetd to call since I have 4 repositories and can only fit three in inetd... I basically did /bin/cvs cvs --allow-root/usr/local/cvsroot (blah blah blah) pserver... But this does not work... So I'm guessing that

Bug in rcs.c ?

2000-04-12 Thread Jesper Pedersen
Hi. First of all: Thanks to anyone who wrote me ! During the move from my MKS/SI repository to CVS I found this thing: In src/rcs.c line 4068 (CVS-1.10.8) there is a strncmp which fails, due to 'log' is NULL. I added a check for log != NULL and the program run fine again. Is this a bug or h

A Question on Binary Files

2000-04-12 Thread Hilary Cheng
Hi All, I would like to ask a question on binary files. For the right now, I am using cvs-1.10 and WinCVS as Front End. I have been imported the binary files as binary type in the cvs. and then use admin function to turn it binary. But no matter what kinds of functions that I have been taken.

RE: CVS history command (cvsnt server)

2000-04-12 Thread Arthur Barrett
Tony, Worked first go! Thanks! Regs, Arthur > -Original Message- > From: Tony Hoyle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 9:50 PM > To: Arthur Barrett > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: CVS history command (cvsnt server) > > Arthur Barrett wrote: >

CVS Manual Translation Project initiated (0.2.3)

2000-04-12 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Begin3 Title: CVSMTP Version:0.2.3 Entered-date: 02APR00 Description:CVS Manual Translation Project (CVSMTP) Project to translate the CVS documentation into german may be other languages. Coordination should be done by e-maili

Merging Branches and temporary suspension of keyword

2000-04-12 Thread Aditya . Sanghi
Hi! We merge our bugfixes branch every night into the main trunk just so that our bugfix branch does not travel too far from the main trunk. On the main trunk we do a cvs update -j BRANCH_NAME However far too many files get conflicts just because of the keywords. The Open Source Development