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Re: --allow-root and init via SSH
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: --allow-root and init via SSH |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:12:06 -0500 (EST) |
Greg A. Woods writes:
>
> > Is --allow-root evaluated for "cvs server" in the current development
> > version, or is it at least on the todo list?
>
> Now you're really asking for trouble. Generally speaking the superuser
> account should never be used directly from remote (though with
> tremendous care in implementation and use one might use per-person SSH
> keys that give a solid audit trail of who accessed the account, and
> there are arguments suggesting such a configuration is more secure than
> using 'su').
He was speaking of the CVS --allow-root= option that specifies (for
pserver) what the allowable CVSROOT directories are.
-Larry Jones
Hey! What's the matter? Can't you take a joke?! It was a JOKE! -- Calvin
- --allow-root and init via SSH, Stephan Feder, 2001/12/11
- Re: --allow-root and init via SSH, Greg A. Woods, 2001/12/11
- Re: --allow-root and init via SSH,
Larry Jones <=
- Re: --allow-root and init via SSH, Greg A. Woods, 2001/12/11
- Re: --allow-root and init via SSH, Gerhard Sittig, 2001/12/12
- Re: --allow-root and init via SSH, Larry Jones, 2001/12/12
- Re: --allow-root and init via SSH, Stephan Feder, 2001/12/13
- Re: --allow-root and init via SSH, Larry Jones, 2001/12/13
- Re: --allow-root and init via SSH, Stephan Feder, 2001/12/13