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Re: cvs security - ssh vs pserver?



On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:08:57AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
| begin: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> quote
| > Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
| > > i just found out that using method 2, you can't assign a shell
| > > of /bin/false.  cvs won't work.   so option 2 also means "giving
| > > a shell account on my machine".
| > 
| > Read http://kitenet.net/programs/sshcvs
| > 
| > > any thoughts?  is pserver really as insecure as dpkg claims in the
| > > configuration of the package?
| > 
| > It uses plain-text passwords, which is pretty insecure, yes.
|  
| i have no problem with plain text passwords.

If you are using a plaintext password, why bother with a password at
all?

-D

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