| commit | 9a42c03cb71eaa9d41ba67275de38c997a791c32 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | Mon Sep 11 11:27:51 2017 -0400 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Tue Sep 12 11:05:58 2017 +0900 |
| tree | 44ee74f0b9e03573523e311e7011c26c5f580e84 | |
| parent | 4d4165b80d6b91a255e2847583bd4df98b5d54e1 [diff] |
shell: drop git-cvsserver support by default The git-cvsserver script is old and largely unmaintained these days. But git-shell allows untrusted users to run it out of the box, significantly increasing its attack surface. Let's drop it from git-shell's list of internal handlers so that it cannot be run by default. This is not backwards compatible. But given the age and development activity on CVS-related parts of Git, this is likely to impact very few users, while helping many more (i.e., anybody who runs git-shell and had no intention of supporting CVS). There's no configuration mechanism in git-shell for us to add a boolean and flip it to "off". But there is a mechanism for adding custom commands, and adding CVS support here is fairly trivial. Let's document it to give guidance to anybody who really is still running cvsserver. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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