[cvsnt] Re: How to contorl the access right within the ViewCVS

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:51:06 +0100, Torsten Martinsen
<torsten at tiscali.dk> wrote:

>Mike Wake wrote:
>
>> Note it is only basic authentication to stop casual viewing.  Someone 
>> could still sniff the network to intercept the actual contents of any 
>> source that was being viewed by an authenticated person.
>>
>> I should set up some sort of encryption/SSL for this but haven't 
>> worked that out yet.  Any hints would be most welcome. 
>
>One approach is to use Basic authentication over HTTPS. An other method 
>is to use NTLM authentication, which is nice in a Windows environment. 
>You'll lose the ability to use Opera as a client, but IE and 
>Mozilla/Firefox work fine.
>

Can you expand on the NTLM authentication a bit? If one has IIS5 or
IIS6 as the ViewCvs webserver engine, where and how can the
permissions be changed?


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)