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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


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