Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Epprecht
Uriah Welcome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry to be off topic, but I had to reply.. I'm glad you did. The blame to become so OT is on me, please excuse. > I'm the Sr. Systems Administrator for SourceForge.net. We still allow > users to download their nightly CVS tarball and they can easily

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Epprecht
Uriah Welcome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry to be off topic, but I had to reply.. I'm glad you did. The blame to become so OT is on me, please excuse. > I'm the Sr. Systems Administrator for SourceForge.net. We still allow > users to download their nightly CVS tarball and they can easily

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Uriah Welcome
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:54:49PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Benoît Sibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy > >> (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible. Or would this > >> confuse cvs on the other server? W

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Ted Cabeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Epprecht writes: >Beno=EEt Sibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Uriah Welcome
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:54:49PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Benoît Sibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy > >> (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible. Or would this > >> confuse cvs on the other server?

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Ted Cabeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Epprecht writes: >Beno=EEt Sibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (I only know about SF) I don't think you can rsync the SF

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Epprecht
Benoît Sibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy >> (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible. Or would this >> confuse cvs on the other server? Would I have direct write access to >> 'my' files in the (foreign) repositor

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Epprecht
Benoît Sibaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy >> (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible. Or would this >> confuse cvs on the other server? Would I have direct write access to >> 'my' files in the (foreign) reposito

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-12 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, > BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy > (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible. Or would this > confuse cvs on the other server? Would I have direct write access to > 'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs? Hints welcome. (I onl

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-12 Thread Benoît Sibaud
Hi, > BTW: I would prefer to keep the main cvs repository local and copy > (rsync ?) it to the foreign sever, if that's possible. Or would this > confuse cvs on the other server? Would I have direct write access to > 'my' files in the (foreign) repository or only over cvs? Hints welcome. (I on

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Epprecht
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: >> I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally >> below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called >> ssh-keygen as root. > Rather than root, add yo

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Epprecht
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: >> I need ssh to access some cvs servers. [ ... ] > I'm not sure I completely understand your situation, [ ... ] nor do I ;-) That's why I ask... Actually I want to do *two* different things (my q

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Epprecht
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: >> I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally >> below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called >> ssh-keygen as root. > Rather than root, add y

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Epprecht
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: >> I need ssh to access some cvs servers. [ ... ] > I'm not sure I completely understand your situation, [ ... ] nor do I ;-) That's why I ask... Actually I want to do *two* different things (my

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: > I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally > below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called > ssh-keygen as root. But now I have my doubts if this was The Right > Thing to do regarding se

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: > > I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally > > below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called >

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: > I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally > below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called > ssh-keygen as root. But now I have my doubts if this was The Right > Thing to do regarding s

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: > > I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally > > below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: > I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally > below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called > ssh-keygen as root. But now I have my doubts if this was The Right > Thing to do regarding se

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Robert Epprecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011208 02:31]: > I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally > below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called > ssh-keygen as root. But now I have my doubts if this was The Right > Thing to do regarding s

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-08 Thread Stefan Hornburg Racke
Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally > below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called > ssh-keygen as root. But now I have my doubts if this was The Right > Thing to do regarding security.

Re: ssh and root

2001-12-08 Thread Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need ssh to access some cvs servers. As the files are stored locally > below /usr/local/ and ordinary users have no write access there I called > ssh-keygen as root. But now I have my doubts if this was The Right > Thing to do regarding security.