Re: turning on the viewcvs query feature

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 18:25 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
>  
>
> > if the changes to the [cvsdb] section could be merged back in.  I don't 
> > think there is much of a problem having the password in CVS because:
> > - the database user account only needs read access.
> > - the account could be limited to logins from cvs.gnome.org.
> > - all the information in the checkin database is publicly available in 
> > the CVS repository.
> >    
>
> Couldn't it be changed to read the password from a file not available
> on-line?
>  
Yes, that is possible (it is free software, after all).  The question is 
whether it is worth making the changes, given that the DB account need 
not have any write permissions.

James.