[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Jul 29 11:47:27 CEST 2005


"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> - Subversion over SSH, using SSH key pairs. This would require
>   to give committers accounts on the machine, which currently is
>   ruled out by the administration policy of svn.python.org.

Would it work/how much risk would it be to create accounts with shell
/bin/false?

Cheers,
mwh
(still faintly bothered by ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/*...)

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