Re: [Monotone-devel] newcomer thoughts and questions (self hosting, CVS)

[Joel Rosdahl]

"Eric S. Johansson" <address@hidden> writes:

[Only replying to some of your questions.]

> [...]
> On running your own server, it looks like you have your own
> equivalent of pserver but I am uncomfortable with how authentication
> seems to be handled. It seems very ad hoc, at least that's my
> impression from the documentation.

Authentication is done by checking the client's cryptographic key
(which have been added to the server database explicitly by the server
administrator) and authorization is done by calling a user-defined LUA
function that determines whether the client is authorized. (But you
probably already knew that.) Simple, but powerful, I think. Why are
you uncomfortable with it?

> Also, if I remember correctly from earlier documentation there was
> an SMTP based method of synchronization. I assume that went away or
> I am remembering something from a different project?

Yes, that's correct. Older versions of Monotone had a different
networking subsystem which handled patch queues and transmission to
destination network servers using HTTP, NNTP or SMTP.

        Regards,
        Joel

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