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Re: Reworking the client and server access method code


From: 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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