Re: EIS integrated into new infrastructure too

Bernd Eilers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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