Hi,

Am Freitag, den 07.09.2007, 10:59 +0200 schrieb Florian Weimer:
> * Joachim Breitner:
> >> I think mounting the file system no-exec covers that.  IIRC,
> >> Subversion directly executes the hook scripts, and this will fail in
> >> that case.
> >
> > Then this should be mentioned in the file. I also think that this is
> > quite a high hurdle: Admins that want that can surely re-compile
> > scponly.
> 
> It's mentioned in the file (item 7), but I agree that this is not the
> target group of the Debian package.

Sorry, didn’t read it all.

> > For the rest, the debian package should come without svn
> > support. The README.Debian could describe the disabled features, and
> > under what circumstances they are save, and how best to recompile
> > scponly.
> 
> The package could create two binaries, one that supports just
> scp/sftp, and another one for the rest.

Sounds good, but that’s up to the maintainer. Thomas, are you reading
this?

> For the stable security update, it's probably best to just disable
> Subversion/Unison/rsync.

I agree.

Greetings,
Joachim

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