[cvsnt] Re: fileattr gets corrupted all the time

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Nov 8 14:03:26 GMT 2004


cccs at rz.fh-augsburg.de.NOSPAM wrote:
> Has anyone been able to reproduce this yet?
> Or is it a real security problem having chroot off?
> I'm not using any system users for my CVS setup anyways...
> All cvs users run as a deactivated user account (cannot log on locally)
> 
chroot is just part of a proper layered security model - it makes things 
harder
for hackers, as do other things like running as an unprivileged user. 
If your system is secure in other ways anyway I wouldn't worry about it 
too much.

Tony




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