Brian Smith wrote:
set the repository root during authentication. AFAIK, pserver is the
> only protocol that sets the repository root during authentication. I

All protocols except 'ext' and 'gserver' send the root during
authentication, for precisely this reason (and gserver only for
historical reasons).

> I thought that the "readers" and "writers" file was for authorization. I
> still think that the passwd file should be only for :pserver:.

The readers/writers files only determine who can read and write the
repository, they aren't part of the authentication process.

In many (most, probably) cases you don't want all the users of a system
to be able to log onto the repository.  The passwd file is the most
obvious way to achieve this.

Tony

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