6.7. Secure remote access with CVS
The main goal of CVS is to provide a central repository for the storage of development projects and to provide access to and management tools for those projects. CVS by its nature is not a secure protocol.
Passwords, source code files and project data are transmitted across the network in clear text and available to anyone along the data path that cares to eavesdrop and analyze the data collected.
Various developers, aware of the inherent insecurity of the CVS protocol, have started using Secure Shell (ssh) to provide an additional layer of security to the development process. This chapter describes how to set up ssh on the clients and the server in order to ensure that code, data and authentication information ...
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