[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thor A. Lange) writes:
> >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Dan> Out of curiosity, what are the old and new authentication
> Dan> systems?
>
> We used to just do authentication based on a passwd file in the
> CVSROOT directory of our cvs repository. To ensure that the projects
> only had access to their own repository we had to create a user in the
> system for every project.
>
> The new system is a path from the Tigris project. It Uses a MySQL
> database to authenticate and adds more advanced authentication/access
> control than available in the ordinary CVS distribution. This has made
> us able to just have one user for the CVS server and do the access
> control from the MySQL database.
>
> Eventually this new system should allow us to make a web interface for
> project managers to manage their own CVS users (this is my future plan
> :=) )...
Cool. Hey, speaking of webby CVS stuff, do you guys by any chance have
cvsweb installed on sunsite.dk? I find it very handy for browsing CVS
source. For example:
http://www.mhost.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/nmh/
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