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Re: libsvn_auth

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2003-02-05 03:17:08 CET

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>It seems ridiculous to have a bunch of sequenced providers in this
>case. I imagine a single provider like this:
>
> * honor --username/--password first
> * then look in wc
> * then getuid
>
>There's no point in prompting. getuid can't possibly fail; only the
>first two methods may be unavailable.
>
>
Really? I can imagine a situation on Windows where getuid (or the
equivalent) can fail -- at least, the conversion from uid to string
could concievably fail.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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