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Re: CVS using a proxy ?
- To: kingdon at cyclic dot com (Jim Kingdon)
- Subject: Re: CVS using a proxy ?
- From: larry dot jones at sdrc dot com (Larry Jones)
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 17:39:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: richard dot earnshaw at arm dot com, hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com, nicolas at bnp-eng dot remcomp dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com, rearnsha at sun52 dot arm dot com
Jim Kingdon writes:
> In my opinion this approach, and/or something else which allows one to
> one to change authentication details at run-time without having to
> patch CVS, is the way to go.
I agree; unfortunately, runsocks isn't available for every platform.
> This is partly just because I am a lazy application writer and don't
> want to have to update my application for the 3 zillion different
> authentication/connection schemes out there. But it is also The Right
> Thing(TM) for network security -- you don't want the security of your
> network to be at the mercy of whether CVS (and every other
> application) has gotten things right.
At least for SOCKS, that's not a problem -- it's the SOCKS server that's
responsible for network security, not the clients.
> I've updated the SOCKS information at
> http://www.cyclic.com/cvs/dev-net.html to suggest runsocks.
Since runsocks isn't available everywhere, the patch (or at least the
linking trick) is still needed for some platforms.
-Larry Jones
Girls are like slugs -- they probably serve some purpose, but
it's hard to imagine what. -- Calvin