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Re: Security concern CVSROOT


From: Noel L Yap
Subject: Re: Security concern CVSROOT
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:54:01 -0400

You can even set permissions (both traditional permissions and file system ACLs)
on the CVSROOT directory itself to allow/disallow checkouts/checkins of the
stuff within CVSROOT.  There are, however, a couple of files within CVSROOT that
you'll have to be careful of (IIRC, history and valtags).

Noel




address@hidden on 2000.10.25 11:45:14

To:   address@hidden
cc:   address@hidden (bcc: Noel L Yap)
Subject:  Re: Security concern CVSROOT




Martin Vogt writes:
>
> I dont like it that every user can remotely execute commands.
> I like to have the ability that the mkmodules call is protected.
> I like to have a config obtion in CVSROOT which do something like
> this:
>
> MkModules=/usr/sbin/alertsysadmin_by_mail
>
> Or as default: leave it blank, then it rebuilds mkmodules.
>
> CVSROOT is not changed very much, so it is acceptable that
> it is done by some "admin"

The whole point of CVSROOT being part of the repository is that you can
use normal CVS methods to do all of these things.  For example, you can
use system file permissions and/or commitinfo to limit commits (which is
what triggers mkmodules) and you can use loginfo to do notifications.

-Larry Jones

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it. -- Hobbes

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