[cvsnt] Unicode and Linux pam authentication

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Apr 18 10:40:17 BST 2003


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Andre Schoorl wrote:

> 1. cvsnt style Unicode support (i.e., `-ku' command line option)
> 2. Linux PAM authentication (this is available as a patch to vanilla CVS).
>  This allows the use of Windows NTLM credentials.
>  
> Unfortunately, vanilla CVS from cvshome.org does not support (1) and cvsnt
> does not support (2).  Currently, I am using cvs-1.11.5 with a patch for
> (2).
>  
> Does anyone know a way I can have the best of both worlds?

Provided your nsswitch is setup correctly then PAM will just work
transparently.  There's no particular need to make a CVS specific version. 
I can find a PAM patch from 2001 but it looks a bit dodgy to me... is there
a more recent one?

Tony




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