Hi Larry,
would it be a pain to just add it? The patch is already there and if the
default behaviour (i.e. in the case when no --allow-root is set) were to
allow access to any repository it would be backward compatible, so no
problem there.
Regards,
Stephan
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Larry Jones wrote:
>
> Gerhard Sittig writes:
> >
> > So, *is* the --allow-root option evaluated for the "cvs server"
> > case?
>
> No, it is only used for :pserver:. Historically, the user was in
> complete control of the server command line, so it didn't make any sense
> to try to use its contents to control what the user was allowed to do.
> Even with SSH, it has to be set up very carefully or it's totally
> ineffective. I haven't yet heard an overwhelming demand to change it.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
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