From duncan@stat.berkeley.edu  Thu Jan  6 16:27:50 2000
From: duncan@stat.berkeley.edu (Duncan Temple Lang)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:27:50 -0800 (PST)
Subject: anoncvs -- use rsync !
In-Reply-To: <6r7lhns28x.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0001060823320.15186-100000@sauron.Berkeley.EDU>



On 6 Jan 2000, Douglas Bates wrote:

> Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
> > >>>>> "PaulG" == Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:
> > 
> >     PaulG> I'm trying to do cvs -d
> >     PaulG> :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.r-project.org:/home/rcvs/src login
> > 
> >     PaulG> and I get "authorization failed...rejected access" with the
> >     PaulG> previously advertised password (anoncvs). Has the access been
> >     PaulG> changed or is anyone else having this problem? I'm not very
> >     PaulG> familiar with cvs so I may be making some mistake.
> > 
> > hmm,  I thought we finally *didn't* allow anonymous cvs,
> > {one reason being the log files publicity?},
> > 
> > but rather recommend and advertize  rsync (which also works for CRAN, btw).
> 
> We were providing anonymous cvs access in addition to anonymous rsync
> access but now the configuration for the anonymous pserver account
> seems to be botched up.  I don't know enough about the anonymous cvs
> setup to fix it right now and don't have time to learn about it.  If
> Tony Rossini or Duncan Temple Lang have time to fix it, we'll get it
> fixed.  Otherwise I recommend we discontinue anonymous cvs.  
> 
> Most everything people want from anonymous cvs can be accomplished
> much more cleanly with anonymous rsync.  The only advantages of
> anonymous cvs are for people who do want to read the log files or want
> to check out copies of earlier versions.
> 
> Since any checkouts by the anonymous user must be able to update the
> history files, the anonymous CVS tree is actually a copy of the
> production CVS tree.  
> 
> I would recommend using anonymous rsync.



I just tried the login  and checkout commands 
(from an account on a machine that knows nothing about
franz/cvs.r-project.org) and they seem to be working fine.

Did somebody fix things? If not, shall I remove the
anonymous CVS access and we only allow rsync.

D.

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anoncvs -- use rsync !
Duncan Temple Lang