bugtraq - Re: CVS woes: .cvspass

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Message-ID: <200407271819.i6RIJnEO005967@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:19:49 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Chiaki <ishikawa@...rim.or.jp>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: CVS woes: .cvspass

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 03:00:52 +0900, Chiaki <ishikawa@...rim.or.jp>  said:

> Granted that many of these files under user home directories
> visible on the web
> must be the password to be used by anonymous server or
> publicly usable CVS server, but I doubt if ALL of them
> are the result of such benign neglect.

If a user's home directory is visible via a web browser, the .cvspass
is probably not the biggest problem....

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