The advantage of pserver is the ability to map one or more users to the same
system user on the server. The disadvantages are the need to "cvs login" and
the lack of security.
The advantages of client/server CVS using SSH is the easier usage (ie no "cvs
login") and the better security. The disadvantages are key maintenance and no
ability to map users.
Client/server CVS can easily map users if the client sent the remote user's name
over to the server to use in its logs. Therefore, I propose that such an
enhancement should be done (I'll even do the work if my schedule doesn't get
overloaded).
The effects of this change would be obvious to those using client/server CVS
where the client usernames aren't the same as the server usernames. It would,
in effect, make client/server CVS be more consistent with the behaviour of
pserver CVS.
(The key maintenance disadvantage of SSH CVS will have to wait until someone
extends SSH to support SRP -- such an extensions has already been proposed).
Any comments?
Thanks,
Noel
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