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Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?
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david |
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Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository? |
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Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:13:08 -0600 (CST) |
> [ On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 11:03:38 (-0500), Larry Jones wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?
> >
> > I think that's still overstating the case. If you run CVS on a network
> > where you can trust people enough that you're confortable running
> > telnet or rlogin, then pserver is fine.
>
> Telnet and rlogin and similar still provide on heck of a lot more
> accountability (over a trusted network) than pserver could ever possibly
> do.
>
The key here is accountability, I think. pserver has effectively no
accountability, and telnet/rlogin have some (as far as I know).
> If you have a trusted network and you do feel comfortable with telnet
> and rlogin then USE THEM -- DO NOT USE PSERVER.
>
The logic for using pserver over ssh would be that it's harder to set
ssh up right. Not a really compelling reason, but it's all I can think
of. However, setting rsh up is as trivial as setting pserver up, so
I'd have to agree here.
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- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, (continued)
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Greg A. Woods, 2004/01/20
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Larry Jones, 2004/01/20
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Johnny Fulcrum, 2004/01/20
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Greg A. Woods, 2004/01/20
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Larry Jones, 2004/01/20
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Greg A. Woods, 2004/01/21
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, johnny fulcrum, 2004/01/20
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Greg A. Woods, 2004/01/21
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, WJCarpenter, 2004/01/21
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Greg A. Woods, 2004/01/23
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?,
david <=
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Greg A. Woods, 2004/01/21
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, david, 2004/01/21
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Geoff Beier, 2004/01/20
- Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Greg A. Woods, 2004/01/20
RE: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Walter, Jan, 2004/01/20
Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Andy Jones, 2004/01/20
RE: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Jim.Hyslop, 2004/01/20
RE: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Jim.Hyslop, 2004/01/20
Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?, Adrian Crossley, 2004/01/20