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Kjell Martin21 Apr 2004 12:13 
Johan Nilsson22 Apr 2004 01:02 
Subject:[p4] preventing anonymous user from messing with their passwo rd
From:Johan Nilsson (joha@esrange.ssc.se)
Date:04/22/2004 01:02:21 AM
List:com.perforce.perforce-user

Nick,

-----Original Message----- From: Nick Levine [mailto:ndl at ravenbrook.com] Sent: den 22 april 2004 09:40 To: perforce-user at perforce.com Cc: ndl at ravenbrook.com Subject: Re: [p4] preventing anonymous user from messing with their password

Re:

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.

Thanks for the reply (also to those who replied privately). All suggestions received were basically the same.

I guess I was hoping for a simpler solution, some flag buried in the documentation which I might have overlooked. Given my options, I think what I'll do is play King Log - probably a whole load less work and certainly allows me to stay focussed on greater priorities.

As I understand the Open Source license (after a cursory glance), you don't _need_ to have a user named 'anonymous' - you can provide Perforce with a special, password-protected, read-only user as long as you tell them about it. Is there any other reason you need an anonymous user without password?

// Johan