Re: Proposal: have client CVS send remote username to server CVS

[Derek R. Price]

Noel L Yap wrote:

> Yes, mapping several users to one system user (while CVS remembers the real
> username) is what I'm trying to achieve.  I guess my proposal pushes the
> authentication responsiblity onto the client machine.

You proposal seems to push some of the chore of authentication to the client,
but it still trusts users not to replace their version of CVS with the
hypothetical hacked version which sends whatever user ID the user likes, so
security isn't maintained.

Derek

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