Re: [pgsql-www] Problems logging into CVS server - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: [pgsql-www] Problems logging into CVS server
Date
Msg-id 20040712221420.L867@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Problems logging into CVS server  (Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@gunduz.org>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Justin Clift wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>>
>> Damn ... I'll have to look at it ... we had a hacker get in through the
>> way anoncvs was setup, so I set a passwd on in /etc/passwd (but didn't
>> touch the anoncvs setup itself) ... will play with it tonight and see if I
>> can figure out how to do a more secure anon-cvs ;(  I have to be missing
>> something in the config *sigh*
>
> Um, that sounds worrying.  Was the activity of the hacker anything that would
> affect PG code, or access to anything sensitive (account passwords, etc)?

No ... anoncvs is not part of the same group as the primary cvsroot, so
not able to commit to the source tree ... the anoncvs cvsroot is a
different directory structure altogether (/projects/cvsroot vs /cvsroot),
and the anoncvs user has no write permissions on /cvsroot ...

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