[Scribia-dev] [Fwd: CVS pserver access: scribia]

[Lark <lar...@ya...>]

FYI - the link included below 
(https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2973&group_id=1) 
has instructions on how to use CVS+SSH on MacOS.

Lark


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CVS pserver access: scribia
Date: 13 Jun 2001 12:37:57 -0400
From: Jacob Moorman <mo...@so...>
To: la...@us..., pug...@us..., 
rt...@us..., be...@us..., 
br...@us..., cy...@us..., 
ge...@us..., ya...@us...
CC: co...@us..., pre...@va...

Greetings,

My name is Jacob Moorman; I am the Quality of Service Manager for
SourceForge.net.  In the past, SourceForge.net has provided
pserver-based CVS write access to developers of some projects hosted on
SourceForge.net.  This access has been provided based on requests
directed to our support team; and has been provided due to the lack of
availability of CVS clients, for certain OS platforms (namely MacOS),
which support SSH authentication.

It is our pleasure to notify you that several solutions to the
historical CVS+SSH problems for MacOS users are now available.  Of
course, the most recent release of MacOS (MacOS X) natively provides
support for wrapping CVS traffic with SSH.  However, several solutions
have also become available for older versions of MacOS; these solutions
are detailed at:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2973&group_id=1

The use of the pserver authentication mechanism constitutes a
significant risk; the pserver protocol sends passwords in the clear over
the network wire, which means they are at risk of capture by third
parties who may be monitoring your network traffic.  For this reason, we
have always made use of the SSH authentication mechanism sitewide, so as
to reduce these risks.  Pserver-based authentication has been provided
solely upon request, and in those cases, only as a temporary workaround
for the software availability issues.  As solutions for all known
CVS+SSH issues are now available, we are now in the process of phasing
out pserver-based write access.

Based on my review of the scribia project CVS repository, it appears
that
you have been provided with pserver-based write access to your
repository.  We are currently in the process of contacting projects who
make use of pserver write access to notify them that this service is
being phased out.  This process will not modify the anonymous
pserver-based read-only CVS access provided to all projects.

Please set up your workstation to use the new CVS+SSH solutions in lieu
of the pserver-based access.  Should you encounter difficulties in
making this conversion, please notify me via e-mail at
mo...@so... ASAP; we will be glad to assist you in the
resolution of any issues you encounter.  If we do not hear from you by
2001-06-20, we will proceed with the removal of your pserver-based write
access to the scribia project CVS repository.

In the event that you should have questions or concerns regarding this
matter, please feel free to contact me at mo...@so...

Thank you,

Jacob Moorman
Quality of Service Manager, SourceForge
mo...@so...