Hey
Greg Hudson wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 01:28, Glenn A. Thompson wrote:
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>>Could you elaborate on this. I don't like the idea of a password
>>database being in the repository.
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>Why?
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Because people may want to authenticate against an in-house database.
Also, I was wondering if you were proposing making it a formal part of
the FS_API or just planning to put it in the repos file structure somewhere.
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>>I read through the IRC text. I think I understand the Apache
>>limitation. However, I'm not in the habit of inviting a stranger into my
>>house and then asking his name when I discover he's a thief.
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>What you do is your business; however, the Subversion project does
>exactly this: it lets people in unless they want to do a commit or
>rev-prop-change, and then asks them for a password.
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Whoops! good point:-)
I *did* mean within a commit or prop-change. That was a very bad
analogy. And a poor attempt at humor.
I've always provided my credentials up front for commits etc. So I
don't ever recall being prompted in the middle of a commit.
I figured the client would just abort when challenged if I didn't
provide them up front.
After considering the possibility other DAV clients, I realized I'm
totally off base regardless. Sorry.
But of course for ra_svn you have a choice.
My choice would be (1).
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>>> VARIATION: We could add a --anonymous client flag
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>>Please don't:-)
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>Why?
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What I was thinking was: "Yet another flag. How is it different than
specifying anonymous as my userid?"
Had I groked your Note about --anonymous and ra_dav my comments would
have been limited to the password database question.
However does --non-interactive come into play here?
Having reviewed your email again and my response. I have concluded that
all the code I write tonight will just plain suck.
So the allnighter I had planned has been terminated.
Good night.
gat
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Received on Fri Oct 17 09:46:05 2003