Re: CVS

[Jason Pincin <chardros@linuxkb.org>]

Yeah - I don't see any reason to be handing out web space.  Email, yes.
cvs, of course.  Beyond that?  We'll hafta discuss when the time comes.

J


On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 11:26:59PM -0800, Aaron Turner wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Micah K Yoder wrote:
> 
> > Aaron Turner wrote:
> > 
> > > Well to use ssh you have to have a vaild shell on the "server".   I was
> > > looking into using a restricted shell or even a bogus shell to reduce the
> > > security risk.  I was able to run some sucessful CVS tests, but then got
> > > distracted... you know the rest.
> > 
> > Yeah... /bin/false, the best shell out there.  :-)
> 
> Actually, /bin/false is bad. :-)  Certain systems (not Linux AFAIK)
> interpret the output of /bin/false as an error, and will drop the "user"
> into a vaild shell as a result.  Hence, you should always use /bin/true
> even though it sounds backwards.
>  
> > This is actually a good idea, assuming we get a lot of people... that
> > will allow them to have ssh, cvs, web space, and E-mail forwarding, but
> > eliminates the ability to login.
> 
> Yeah, we'll have to come up with a list of services that we're willing to
> give out to people.  Email forwarding is a no brainer.  Web space isn't a
> real problem, except how to we allow people to update their pages (do we
> give them usable shell accounts or use ftp or some kind of web management
> tool?).  Personally though, I don't hear people begging me for this sort
> of thing.  Maybe if people started begging for these kind of services we'd
> actually impliment them as policy and actually support them.  Doesn't seem
> to be that big of a demand for it though.
> 
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