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

[Alexey Mahotkin]

>>>>> "DRP" == Derek R Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

DRP> pserver, the originally authenticated user name is what you will
DRP> see in the logs, though you can map to a secondary user which the
DRP> CVS server will run under - convenient for file permissions,
DRP> though I would usually rather map each user to their own user ID
DRP> and rely on the OSs users, groups, & file permissions to do that
DRP> job.

[plug] surely, nserver supports this scenario (file-system ACLs are
good).  Just authenticate with /usr/bin/checkpassword or
/usr/bin/checkpassword-pam. [/plug] This way CVSUSER will match the
system user name.

Just when you are Sourceforge and want to host several hundreds
repositories with several thousands developers -- you would't want to
give them all system ids, just like when you host free e-mail service
with millions of users. 

--alexm