Re: EIS integrated into new infrastructure too
Bernd Eilers <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.general |
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On 04.03.2011 13:51, Eike Rathke wrote: > Hi Bernd, > Hi Eike! > On Thursday, 2011-03-03 17:18:21 +0100, Bernd Eilers wrote: > >> If as a developer you are using a different password than before it >> would probably be hard to generate the CVS encrypted Version of the >> password nowadays > > Actually not, the CVS password scrambling is a simple text encoding, see > http://www.rootr.net/man/info/cvsclient > "Password scrambling algorithm", and > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=457764 > >> because the new infrastructure does not provide a >> CVS server anymore. Thus we now also allow unencrypted passwords to >> be used for authentication for the EIS SOAP services. If you have >> changed your password you must configure the CVS_PASSWORD variable >> in your $HOME/.cwsrc > > See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/.cwsrc > Oh there is a link with a tool for doing the CVS scrambeling mentioned there. Nice! >> file and can use it unencrypted there now. Be >> sure to not accidentally make that file public readable than. > > Also not with a scrambled password.. because it´s as easy to descramble than to scramble and as Bruce Schneier would say: "That´s something that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, but not security". > > Eike > Kind regards, Bernd Eilers -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help