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RE: cvs pserver authentication frustration
- From: "Geoff Soutter" <gsoutter at molten dot com dot au>
- To: "'Charles Wilson'" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:13:36 +1100
- Subject: RE: cvs pserver authentication frustration
- Reply-to: <gsoutter at molten dot com dot au>
Hi Charles
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Much appreciated.
> I believe that cvs in pserver server mode will have problems with
> switching user context; I have added no windows-specific code
> to enable
> seteuid() to work, so I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work.
> Patches gratefully accepted.
Guessed as much.
Sorry, patches are beyond me at the moment. It's years since I wrote any
C...
> Or, you could get sshd working, and use CVS_RSH=ssh on the remote
> machine...and then *cvs* would be run as a local process on the
> repository host; ssh would handle the network stuff.
Yes, thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to try this. At least I remember
how inetd works now...
Cheers,
Geoff
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