[CLUE-Admin] Anonymous CVS Access

[Jef Barnhart]

On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 19:50, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Hi Folks.
> 
> Well, I'm testing a script to publish the development site to a location
> on the CLUE server. In the process, I've discovered that the anonymous CVS
> access described at http://cluedenver.org/siteDevelopment.html doesn't
> work.
> 
> The culprit is the cvsroot/CVSROOT/passwd file, which specifies a password
> for user anonymous.
> 
> So, the question is, do we really want to allow unrestricted anonymous
> read access to the CVS respository? If so, there's an impact to the
> publish.sh script, and somebody will need to add a readers file to the
> cvsroot/CVSROOT/ directory, and change the passwd file. I can do these
> things.
> 
> I also note that the user "publish" exists in the CVS passwd file with no
> password, and "pubcvs" equivalent. This is bad. There's also a "test"
> user.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> jed