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Nick Levine21 Apr 2004 10:10 
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Subject:[p4] preventing anonymous user from messing with their password
From:Nick Levine (nd@ravenbrook.com)
Date:04/21/2004 10:10:54 AM
List:com.perforce.perforce-user

I am in the process of setting up an "open source" server. One of my obligations under this arrangement (http://www.perforce.com/perforce/opensource-faq.html) is to create an "anonymous" account with read-only access to the server. Clearly I can do this with the following line in the protect table:

read user anonymous * //...

Question: is there anyway to stop some joker from coming along and running

p4 -u anonymous password

Thanks,

- nick