[Sussex] CVS

[paul Morriss]

Sorry I think I should REALLY check e-mails before sending them, what I 
mean't is that there is a lot of reports that pservers has a lot of 
holes in it and potentially insecure.  I have heard about chrooted CVS 
environments - how does that compare to what was said regarding Samba?

Paul

Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> I'm slightly confused as to whether you want to be more or less secure...
> 
> If you want a really secure source control system I'd suggest moving 
> from CVS to Tom Lord's GNU Arch - you can remote access it via sftp 
> (ssh) and require all check-ins to be digitally signed.
> 
> -- 
> Geoff Teale
> Free Software Foundation <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
> 
> paul Morriss wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>   Is it safe to initialise a CVS repository on a Samba share?  I was 
>> thinking of doing it that way rather then the using a pserver as it's 
>> a little less secure.
>>
>> Paul
>>
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