User masquerading - audit trail?

[Mark A. Flacy]

On 10/04/2008 02:57:54 PM, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> Yes, but the user has that ultimate control only at the local level.   
> I
> can get the mercurial repo locally and make a holy mess in it... but
> eventually, if I try to push it back to the central repository, all  
> that
> is for naught.  I still have to authenticate in order to push and so  
> the
> central server *does* know who I am, regardless of who I'm claiming  
> to be.

There is no guarantee there is a "central repository".

None.

Any conclusions that you draw with such an assumption will be suspect.

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Mark A. Flacy