[cvsnt] Re: Trouble with pserver on WinXP

[Tony Hoyle]

John Waugh wrote:
> I must be missing something...
> 
> I thought that with pserver, authentication was accomplished by sending
> passwords in cleartext over the line.

That's user authentication, which is a different thing. 
Authenentication in the transmission sense is a guarantee that the data 
wasn't modified during transmission, which pserver cannot provide.

> or does "Require authentication" imply it needs an ssh connection or
> somesuch?

It's more a gserver/sspi thing, although sserver and ssh have them (it's 
implied by using encryption).

Tony