What about tailing or grepping the journal file watching for any password
update for anonymous user.
If you see any activity, then you reset it to what you want via a superuser.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Levine [mailto:ndl at ravenbrook.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:11 AM
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Cc: ndl at ravenbrook.com
Subject: [p4] preventing anonymous user from messing with their password
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
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