Re: Perforce vs CVS

[email protected] (Nick Ing-Simmons)
Newsgroups perl.bootstrap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:
>Adam Turoff <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> 	Perforce has no native network security model.  Security is handled
>> 	through ssh and other such tricks.
>
>CVS shares this drawback.  You don't ever want to use pserver for anything
>other than anonymous access to the repository; for any commit access, you
>want to handle the security with ssh or some other similar system.

But the ssh issue is exactly what has caused the perception that perl5
perforce depot is "closed" - getting one's ssh key registered was not 
as easy as it could/should have been.


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Nick Ing-Simmons
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