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Re: cvs security problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sama@AGLORIOSO.COM)
Tue Aug 1 17:04:00 2000

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Date:         Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:12:03 +0200
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              Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 02:20:42PM -0400

On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 02:20:42PM -0400, Kev wrote:
> This has been the case for quite some time.  It would be nice if CVS
> could be made more secure, but it would probably take a lot of work.
> --
> Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>

Although I don't think it addresses this very problem, you might be
interested in CVS-nserver (http://alexm.here.ru/cvs-nserver/), a
rewrite of CVS to make it more modular and secure. I still haven't
tried it myself, though.

Regards,
--
Andrea Glorioso		sama(at)aglorioso(dot)com
			Padua, Italy

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