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Re: CVS security audit?


From: Greg A. Woods
Subject: Re: CVS security audit?
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 02:09:42 -0500 (EST)

[ On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 21:00:46 (-0500), Larry Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS security audit?
>
> The objection is that CVS was never *designed*, or even *intended*, to
> be secure.  An audit will affect my confidence not one whit -- it's
> sufficient to keep honest people honest, nothing more.

Indeed.  I couldn't agree more.

Furthermore CVS was designed to use any sufficiently transparent remote
job execution protocol that could have a wrapper put around it such that
it works like rsh.  What more could anyone ask for than to leave both
communications _and_ security to some other specialized tools?

-- 
                                                Greg A. Woods

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