Re: non-interactive user authentication

Colin Putney <cputney@whistler.net> writes:
> The rule still applies. If auth info is specified on the command line,
> use that info to authenticate. If authentication fails, the command
> fails with an appropriate error. Otherwise, prompt.

No, I'm talking about when the user *doesn't* specify the info on the
command line.

> Ah, this is a problem. The "explicit-auth" rule only works if the
> prompting is necessary because of failed authentication. A script
> shouldn't have to supply auth information for commands that don't
> touch the repository. In that case, a --non-interactive flag is,
> indeed, necessary.

What I mean is, there are some commands that touch the repository, but
which you can invoke *without* providing explicit auth info on the
command line (instead, it's derived from the working copy -- or maybe
it's absent entirely, because formerly the repository did not require
auth and now suddenly it does).

-K

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Received on Mon Oct 7 22:08:57 2002