Re: Shadow passwords on Mac OS X (Panther)

[Arthur Barrett]

John,

CVSNT is a more modern and feature rich version of CVS - and is still open
source.  The company which I work for provide professional support and
parter with the open source team to create new ports and new features.

We recently ported CVSNT to Mac OS X.

On Windows CVSNT supports Windows native authentication and we would like
our OS X port to also support "native" authentication.  If you can assist
(even with your knowledge of Mac authentication methods) please contact me
and I'll put you in touch with a more technical person in our organisation.

You can download cvsnt from our web site:
http://march-hare.com/cvspro

Information about professional support, training and installation is also
available at this address.

Regards,



Arthur Barrett






"John Gee" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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> I am running a cvs server with pserver on Mac OS X 10.3.4. The old
> password type on Mac OS X was crypt, which works fine for pserver
> authentication falling through to the system users. The new password
> types of Open Directory and Shadow are not recognised by cvs.
>
> Is there an easy way to get cvs to recognise the newer password types
> through pserver? I have got as far as determining that there is no
> getspnam function available, and that /usr/include/gssapi has gssapi.h
> and gssapi_generic.h and gssapi_krb5.h. Is turning on gssapi support
> relevant? (I have not used gssapi before.)
>
> (I know a work-around is to add pserver passwords for each user, and
> that is what I am using right now.)
>
> Thanks,
> -- 
> John Gee, ADInstruments
> Programmers live in interesting times...
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