Re: preliminary ACL support in cvs-nserver

[Alexey Mahotkin]

>>>>> "GAW" == Greg A Woods <address@hidden> writes:

GAW> Do you understand the unix filesystem security model, especially
GAW> as it applies to CVS?  I think not.  There is no safe way to
GAW> implement per-file ACLs without doing them in the filesystem.

GAW> I think you are fooling yourself with false security.

GAW> In addition the whole concept of per-branch ACLs also suffers the
GAW> very same weaknesses that the current "cvsadmin" feature does.

Of course, ACLs are checked only in server-mode. 

--alexm