[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.08.09 03:37:01
>In other words, why was pserver invented? Because *CVS clients did not
>wish to implement the rsh protocol? Or because the rsh protocol was usually
>blocked by various firewalls? Wow, so we (or someone) implemented one of
>the worst protocols *ever* in existance instead? (Authorization and
>integrity wise...) Now somebody wishes to "fix" this by doing a nserver
>implementation? Unless this implementation includes some form of *real*
>authentication and integrity of the connection, I fail to see how it will
>be "better" than crappy old pserver... It will be redundant.
>From (the little of) what I understand of nserver, it separates out the
authentication from CVS. This has a couple of consequences:
1. pserver can be easily ripped out (if it hasn't already).
2. pluggable (ie real) authentication is possible.
>I'd love to get one question answered by the *CVS (WinCVS, etc) folks.
>Why is SSH (or SRP, etc) support not built into the core functionality
>of your systems, should your platform/system not give native support?
No authentication should exist within CVS. Instead, CVS should be open to
pluggable authentication.
Noel
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