Re: CVS server patch?

[Derek Robert Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> I wrote a similar patch a long time ago but never committed it because
> there didn't seem to be much demand.  I used "*" rather than "+", and I
> interpreted a username of "*" to mean any system user.  That provided a
> wealth of flexibility and completely eliminated the need for SystemAuth
> in the config file (which is good because then all the access control is
> in a single place): adding "*:*" to the end of the CVS passwd file would
> be the same as SystemAuth=yes, not having it would be the same as
> SystemAuth=no.  If there's interest, I can resurrect my patch.
>  

I don't see why that shouldn't be committed to the experimental branch.

Derek

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