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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/usr.bin/cvs/NEWS')
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/NEWS b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/NEWS index b2827cfd21a..5e746fe6fe1 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/NEWS +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,30 @@ Changes since 1.9: +* One can now authenticate and encrypt using the GSSAPI network +security interface. For details see the description of :gserver: in +CVSROOT, and the -a global option. + +* All access to RCS files is now implemented internally rather than by +calling RCS programs. The main user-visible consequence of this is +that there is no need to worry about making sure that CVS finds the +correct version of RCS. The -b global option and the RCSBIN setting +in CVSROOT/config are still accepted but don't do anything. The +$RCSBIN internal variable in administrative files is no longer +accepted. + +* There is a new syntax, "cvs admin -orev1::rev2", which collapses the +revisions between rev1 and rev2 without deleting rev1 or rev2 +themselves. + +* There is a new administrative file CVSROOT/config which allows one +to specify miscellaneous aspects of CVS configuration. Currently +supported here: + + - SystemAuth, allows you to prevent pserver from checking for system + usernames/passwords. + +For more information see the "config" section of cvs.texinfo. + * When setting up the pserver server, one now must specify the allowable CVSROOT directories in inetd.conf. See the Password authentication server section of cvs.texinfo for details. Note that @@ -21,10 +46,9 @@ repository from the cvspass file. password-authenticated server (other access methods are just governed by Unix file permissions, since they require login access to the repository machine anyway). See the "Repository" section of -cvs.texinfo for details. Note that the security cautions in -cvs.texinfo ("Password authentication security"), and the requirement -that read-only users be able to create locks and write the history -file, both apply. +cvs.texinfo for details, including a discussion of security issues. +Note that the requirement that read-only users be able to create locks +and write the history file still applies. * The "checkout" command now creates a CVS directory at the top level of the new working directory, in addition to CVS directories created |