Looks good to me. Much needed improvements, too.
-Karl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes:
> I'm considering making some enhancements to the CVSROOT/passwd file
> format and I'd like people's opinions:
>
> First, I'd like to interpret "*" in the password field as "the system
> password for this user". That would allow people who are not concerned
> with network security to use system passwords along with user mapping.
> For example, one could have a CVSROOT/passwd that looked like:
>
> john:*:cvsadmin
> lisa:*:cvsadmin
> bill:*:cvsuser
> anne:*:cvsuser
>
> instead of having to give everyone separate CVS passwords or copy their
> system passwords into CVSROOT/passwd and then having to worry about
> keeping them in sync.
>
> Second, I'd like to interpret "*" in the username field as "any system
> user". That would allow even more simplification -- for example:
>
> *:*:cvsuser
>
> could be used to allow any system user to run CVS; or
>
> *:asdfghjklqwer:nobody
>
> could be used to allow anyone who knows the password to run CVS.
>
> An interesting side-effect of these changes is that the SystemAuth
> config option would no longer be needed:
>
> *:*
>
> is equivalent to SystemAuth=yes, and
>
> *:x
>
> (or any other impossible password) is equivalent to SystemAuth=no. This
> has the added advantage of keeping all the password-related stuff in one
> place.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well MINE are even WORSE!
> -- Calvin
