Re: Webserver CVS (In)Security

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:42:02PM -0500, methodic@libpcap.net wrote: [snip]

> In the end I chose to delete all CVS directories and files in my webroot
> with this command: find /www -name CVS -type d | xargs rm -rf which I
> have in a shell script that pushes the CVS site live. I didn't need them
> around and I didn't feel like messing around with httpd.conf. I'm not
> sure why people would want to keep them around.. maybe there's a tool
> that performs some sort of statistics. If that's the case, you should
> write a regex in your webserver's config file (if it has that option) to
> deny CVS and anything below it.

No, what you should be doing is a,

  $ cvs export web-root

And NOT a 'checkout.'

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