Re: non-interactive user authentication

Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> I think the first order of business is to make a clean separation
> between the libraries and the client program. IIRC, right now the
> prompt is coming from the RA lib. Instead, the lib should simply
> return an error if authentication fails; then the client can decide
> about prompting or not.

I thought it is ultimately the client deciding whether or not to
prompt? The RA layer just calls a client-supplied routine to get auth
info. What that routine does is up to it.

> The next problem is what to do with the failure in the client. IMHO,
> if any auth tokens were passed in explicitly on the command line, it
> should not prompt -- the user had her shot, and missed.

Yes, I'm fine with that, but we still have to handle the circumstance
where subversion might prompt when the tokens were *not* passed on the
command line.

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Received on Mon Oct 7 22:19:55 2002