[cvsnt] CVS_PASSFILE

[Tony Hoyle]

juha at tietolaite.com wrote:

> I have to say that I disagree on this. When password is stored 
> on novell server there is no way getting password without 
> logging to novell first. If you can login as administrator to 
> Windows, you can get users passwords from registry. (perhaps not 
> directly but with little hacking)

If you can log on as Administrator to Windows passwords are 
irrelevant...  you can change anything, install backdoors, keyloggers, 
whatever.

> This would be also useful feature when users use different 
> workstations along work day. All you have to do is to login to 
> novell and your cvs password is in your home drive again. No new 
> login to cvs required. (This is situation we have)

You only ever need to login once.  If you avoid pserver then you never 
need to log in at all.  I strongly recommend avoiding pserver anyway.

If you want to make some custom code make a novellserver protocol that 
authenticates over the novell network.  That'd be quite useful.

Tony