[cvsnt-dev] Re: Re[2]: cvs.cvsnt.org is down??

David Somers dsomers at omz13.com
Mon Aug 1 18:19:56 BST 2005


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Tony Hoyle wrote:
> I put in some code to check client certificates.  It's a bit of a pain
> though as you need to go through all the hassle of creating a CA,
> issuing the certificates to the users and making sure cvsnt has both the
> ca and user certificates available.

It is a bit, well, actually, a lot of hassle. However, such is the price
that has to be paid if you want two-way authenticated as well as encrypted
comunications.

BTW, will any of this be incorporated into the ACL system... in the sense of
saying something like user X is only allow to do certain things when they
connect over a secure channel and have the right client certificate?

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