[Libcvs-spec-dev] CVS passwords for pserver

[Alastair Growcott]

Found this good stuff on the web. Thought others may be interested.

 

The way I see it, the Repository object should parse the password out of the CVSROOT (obtained either directly or from the environemnt variable) and store it in plaintext. When creating the CvsConnection object, the constructor for the CvsConnectionPserver class should use an access function to get the password from the Repository object and scramble it. If the password is NULL (as opposed to empty) it checks the $CVS_PASSFILE environment variable, and if not set checks for $HOME/.cvspass. It then parses this to get the scrambled password.

 

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* The ~/.cvspass file has a slightly modified format.  CVSROOTs are now stored in a new canonical form - hostnames are now case insensitive and port numbers are always stored in the new format.  Until a new login for a particular CVSROOT is performed with the new version of CVS, new and old versions of CVS should interoperate invisibly.  After that point, an extra login using the old version of CVS may be necessary to continue to allow the new and old versions of CVS to interoperate using the same ~/.cvspass file and CVSROOT.

 

The exception to this rule occurs when the CVSROOTs used with the different ~/.cvspass file versions use case insensitively different hostnames, for example, "empress", and "empress.2-wit.com".

 
* A password and a port number may now be specified in CVSROOT for pserver connections.  The new format is:
 
   :pserver:[[user][:address@hidden:[port]]/path

 

 

Alastair.

 

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