Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] cvs problems

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:10:27 -0600 (CST)
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:04:00PM -0600, Gerald Combs wrote:
> > As Gilbert mentioned in a previous message, I've been tweaking the script
> > that synchronizes the anonymous CVS tree with the writable one.  (I'm
> > trying to make things _better_ for anoncvs users, honest! :-))  The trees
> > are now being synchronized every five minutes, whether the writable tree
> > has changed or not.
> 
> I think this may have been answered a while ago, but why do we have
> separate anonymous CVS and regular CVS trees?  I think other projects
> have just one tree, to which they grant anonymous read-only access as
> well as granting write access to specific users.

Around the time I set up anoncvs, one or two security-related bugs had
been found in the CVS pserver.  As a matter of paranoia, I placed
anonymous CVS in a chrooted environment with its own tree in case someone
managed to break into the server outright or found a way to
surreptitiously modify the code base.