RE: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?

[Jim.Hyslop]

address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden wrote:
> *if* you run cvs on a network you're sure is secure
> and everybody on it can be absolutely trusted (to the point 
> where you'd
> be perfectly comfortable giving the root password to anybody 
> who had an
> actual need for it), pserver is usable.
That kind of secured network is becoming more and more rare, though. 

Even if you could trust all your users with the root password, these days
most corporate networks are connected to the Big Bad Internet.
Unfortunately, many companies use the "Crunchy on the outside, soft and
chewy on the inside" security model. All it takes is a single Trojan Horse
or a virus to get into a single computer inside your firewall, and your
entire network can be compromised.

-- 
Jim Hyslop 
Senior Software Designer 
Leitch Technology International Inc. (<http://www.leitch.com/>) 
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (<http://www.cuj.com/experts>)