User masquerading - audit trail?
Marcin Kasperski
Marcin.Kasperski at softax.com.pl
Fri Oct 3 14:34:46 CDT 2008
> Mercurial allows you to set the username for patches to anything you
> want. This makes is trivially simple to masquerade as somebody else.
> (...)
So what? Accounts are always trivial to fake, I can rename my home
machine temporarily to selenic.com and use account matt on it.
If you care, the solution is here:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/GpgExtension
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