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Re: Reworking the client and server access method code
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Greg A. Woods |
Subject: |
Re: Reworking the client and server access method code |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:21:51 -0400 (EDT) |
[ On , July 25, 2001 at 22:32:23 (-0500), address@hidden wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Reworking the client and server access method code
>
> I don't think that's a very good idea. Even though pserver is not
> that great from a security point of view, it's probably sufficient for
> a lot of people.
If cvspserver is sufficient security then so is RSH. Let them use RSH.
> I'm sure people still use Kerberos
"rsh -k" works just fine in a Kerberos environtment too. Let them use RSH.
> and fork is
> still a useful debugging tool.
I'm not so sure I agree. You can trivially write a tiny shell script
that looks like RSH to CVS, but which simply connects to another CVS
server invocation via a pipe.
> And even if you ripped everything out, you would want a framework to
> be able to plug different I/O methods onto the front of "server"; it
> would need to sit in basically the same place.
Huh? No, I don't think you would need any I/O framework in the code.
You simply always use an external RSH-like tool for server access.
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