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From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: things currently broken/missing
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:27:47 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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-On [20040211 17:32], Tom Lane ([email protected]) wrote:
>I think we probably ought to leave this turned off.  From a security
>standpoint, it would scare me quite a lot for the cgi user to have write
>access to the CVS tree.  Even though the annotation software itself may
>do nothing more risky than temporarily locking files, what of bugs that
>might allow someone to make more extensive changes?

Make sure to replace every call to 'cvs' with 'cvs -R'.  This enables
read-only repository mode.  Or set the relevant environment variable.
Note that cvs 1.12.x is more intelligent about locks.

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