[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.07.22 09:20:59
>>>>>> "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.
Yes, mapping several users to one system user (while CVS remembers the real
username) is what I'm trying to achieve. I guess my proposal pushes the
authentication responsiblity onto the client machine.
Noel
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