Why not upgrade CVS? Subversion, GNU Arch, etc.

Why not upgrade CVS? Subversion, GNU Arch, etc.

Posted Jun 3, 2004 0:04 UTC (Thu) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029)
In reply to: Why not upgrade CVS? Subversion, GNU Arch, etc. by piman
Parent article: Arch for CVS Users (Linux Journal)

Apache certainly can, but that's kind of a heavyweight solution for a CM server. svnserve has a similar feature to pserver, except that passwords are never sent over the wire, but are used in a cryptographic hash. Unfortunately, the passwords are stored in cleartext. I just can't bring myself to use anything that stores cleartext passwords. Given how (relatively) easy OpenSSL is to use, it's surprising that there only seems to be one CM that takes advantage of it (not counting Subversion+Apache).

Of course, the right thing to do would be to offer to help Subversion add SSL/TLS to the stand-alone server.

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