[cvsnt] Unicode and Linux pam authentication

Max Bowsher maxb at ukf.net
Fri Apr 18 10:58:47 BST 2003


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Tony Hoyle wrote:
> 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?

Yes, there is one in debate on bug-cvs right now.


Max.



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