[cvsnt] CVS_PASSFILE

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Jan 23 13:25:47 GMT 2004


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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:31:54 +0200, juha at tietolaite.com wrote:

>
>So is there any way on newest versions of cvsnt to set where cvsnt stores user 
>passwords instead of registry. In older versions of cvsnt password was stored to 
>.cvspass file defined in CVS_PASSFILE environment variable. I think that was good 
>option instead of registry.

There hasn't been a version of cvsnt that used files almost since its
earliest incarnation.

>We would really like to upgrade cvsnt to newest versions but storing password into a 
>file is more important fact in our case.

The registry is far more secure than a file...

The best way though is not to use passwords at all and connect over
SSPI.

Tony




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