[36037] in bugtraq
Re: CVS woes: .cvspass
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tilman Schmidt)
Sat Aug 7 14:26:38 2004
Message-ID: <41134170.1080006@ePost.de>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:29:36 +0200
From: Tilman Schmidt <Tilman.Schmidt@ePost.de>
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To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>
Cc: Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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Greg A. Woods schrieb in <bugtraq@SecurityFocus.com>:
> [ On Thursday, August 5, 2004 at 12:52:10 (+0300), Delian Krustev wrote: ]
>
>> There's a site outhere. It's sf.net . They demonstrate, with the number
>> of projects being hosted there (with pserver access), You're not right
>> again.
> In the scenario you speak of sf.net has no real requirement for
> accountability -- their offerning using CVSpserver is effectively the
> same as providing anonymous access. Sf.net doesn't care who the real
> humans are in this case -- they simply do their best (which isn't always
> perfect) to keep whole projects from interfering with each other.
In fact, you are even more right than you seem to think. Sf.net's
pserver access is actually anonymous and read-only. Project data in
the SF repository is considered public, and open to anonymous read
access anyway. Their pserver access doesn't add anything to that.
> Meanwhile, IIUC, sf.net does also offer secure SSH access to systems
> hosting CVS repositories and they use true system identities for eash
> SSH account, and presumably with this offering there's normally one (or
> maybe more) unique system accounts for every real human using this
That is so, and SSH access, with a system identity that is a member
of the project's development team, is required for committing changes
to a project repository.
> service, though of course the responsibility of verifying the uniqueness
> of system identities will be on the shoulders of the CVS project admins,
> and perhaps not on sf.net themselves.
Indeed. The registration form asks you to enter a real name, and
a valid E-mail address which is verified by a confirmation E-mail,
but there is no verification beyond that.
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