Re: Proposal: have client CVS send remote username to server CVS

[Alexey Mahotkin]

>>>>> "GAW" == Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

GAW> Ah yes, but cvs-pserver can only map to multiple different system
GAW> users if you run it as root, which no matter what anyone says is
GAW> extremely risky.  

That is why 

tyranny:~/cvs/src$ wc -l cvs-pserver.c 
    184 cvs-pserver.c
tyranny:~/cvs/src$ wc -l cvschkpw.c
    253 cvschkpw.c

and the experimental cvs-nserver which uses different protocol is 

tyranny:~/cvs/src$ wc -l cvs-nserver.c 
    195 cvs-nserver.c

GAW> If you run cvs-pserver as an ordinary system user then you cannot map
GAW> CVS identities to any other system user.

But this allows for ordinary users to anonymously export their repositories 
from their machine, not bothering the sysadmin.  cvs-nserver supports this
(though clients should have convenient way of specifying the port for
repository access).

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