[cvsnt] Re: Can alternate users be specified with the sspi protocol???

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Nov 7 12:20:43 GMT 2002


On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 01:07:00 +0100, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:

>Is it possible to add users to the CVSNT server with the cvs passwd
>command and make them active for use with sspi?
>Or is sspi exclusively working with Windows users (from the domain or
>locally)???
>
sspi is designed for authenticating windows users.  The only option
for 'virtual' users is pserver, and that's at least part of the reason
why it's insecure - the OS is a lot better at authentication than cvs
will ever be.

Tony




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