Re: denial-of-service attack prohibits all users from creating new repositories

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Mark,

> The assumption has been that the local repository would also be 'locked
> down' which is why I said that this 'feature' is more for the set-uid
> and/or set-gid cvs executables than the vanilla executables.
> 
> It is also the case that accidents happened and the 'error' was put in
> place to 'help' folks who kept stepping on themselves.

But then there should be a way (option or environment variable) that allows
to silence the error message?

Thank you for your answers to the three questions. You helped me decide;
I appreciate it.

> fwiw: I am not happy that CVS appears to be stalled right now... Sigh.

But at least RCS is in active development:
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=rcs.git

Bruno