Re: PAM authentication patch - v2

Brian Murphy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Mark D. Baushke wrote:

>I guess that I really do not understand why :pserver: needs to use PAM
>authentication. I am not saying there is not a reason, I just have not
>understood it.
>
>  
>

One good reason is that you want to use LDAP or NIS authentication but you
dont want local shell users. Local shell users can do very stupid stuff 
like
remove parts of the repository which is not possible via pserver.

/Brian
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