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Re: CVS

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> Huh?  Why does cvs need to be ssh?  This is going to be open source
> code... why the great security lengths?

Some people (like me) are tunneling cvs over ssh.
 
> I thought one of the main benefits of CVS was the fact that people didn't
> need shell access to the box in order to develop???

They don't.  So far we're giving people shells if they want.

> I don't know about you guys, but what if we go live, and we get flooded
> with people willing to contribute, and we take 50 people on as site
> hackers... I don't want to hand out 50 shell accounts.  Now THAT's
> insecure.  

No disagreements here.

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