[Savannah-hackers] Re: webcvs

[loic]

Joel N. Weber II writes:
 >    Joel N. Weber II writes:
 >     > So it seems to me that it would be nice if I could go to
 >     > https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/sysadmin and see an obvious link to
 >     > where I could use webcvs to view the sysadmin documentation once I
 >     > have authenticated myself, but that seems to be something which
 >     > doesn't actually work, at least not in any obvious fashion.
 > 
 >         It does not work, indeed. viewcvs (that replaced webcvs) is not
 >    configured (and cannot be, but Jaime will be able to confirm this) to
 >    handle authentification. Either everyone or noone can use viewcvs.
 > 
 > Umm, we have the source for viewcvs, right?

        Yes.

 > Doesn't savannah use cookies to verify authentication?  Wouldn't it be
 > possible to modify viewcvs to check those cookies?

        Would be possible, of course. I'm not sure if someone can take
this task now, that's all.

        Cheers,

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