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Re: setup HEAD changes
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:33:47PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>I guess we could have setup.exe deny access to sources.redhat.com IP
>>address, though...
>
>That will only work briefly. Eventually someone will strip out that
>limitation, build a replacement, and post it on some website somewhere.
>
>Better solution would be to disallow *anonymous* rsync to cygwin-ftp
>repository. Those who need to rsync to cygwin-ftp can do it using
>authentication.
That would disallow mirrors, unfortunately. We don't give special accounts
to people who are mirroring sources.redhat.com via rsync.
I am not particularly worried about people building their own version of
cygwin, actually. I don't think it will be a wildly popular item.
cgf