[cvsnt] Re: How to use CVS init -r option ???

[Tony Hoyle]

David Somers wrote:
> Tony Hoyle wrote:
> 
>>The whole thing probably needs a rethink for security purposes anyway.
> 
> 
> I thought only a user with admin rights could do init -r, so its use is
> already restricted to (hopefully) responsible admins.
> 
The problem is the potential for abuse, and accidents, even for admins. 
  It's just a bit too unsafe for my liking at the moment.

For remote repository init there probably needs to be a global root that 
the new ones are created under - this stops people trying to create 
repositories in random places on the disk, which is a situation I really 
don't like (a cvs init in c:\windows could be rather a mess for 
example.. especially if it wasn't caught for a while).

Tony