Re: CVS'r'us

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:

  Lars> Ah, right.  I've tried looking through the CVS documentation, but I
  Lars> couldn't find any mention of this.  Is it on the web somewhere,
  Lars> perhaps?

My CVS manual (version 1.9) contains a section "Remote repositories".
It mentions password authentication, too.

Here's what I perceive as the most relevant paragraph:

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|    When authenticating a password, the server first checks for the user 
| in the CVS `passwd' file.  If it finds the user, it compares against    
| that password.  If it does not find the user, or if the CVS `passwd'    
| file does not exist, then the server tries to match the password using  
| the system's user-lookup routine.  When using the CVS `passwd' file,    
| the server runs under as the username specified in the the third        
| argument in the entry, or as the first argument if there is no third    
| argument (in this way CVS allows imaginary usernames provided the CVS   
| `passwd' file indicates corresponding valid system usernames).  In any  
| case, CVS will have no privileges which the (valid) user would not have.
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kai
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