[cvsnt] Re: On the difference between CVSNT for Unix and CVSNT for Windows.

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Mar 31 09:32:27 BST 2003


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Ori Berger wrote:

> How stable is CVSNT for Unix? What functionality is different from
> CVSNT on NT, and what's different from plain old CVS on Unix? (from
> the sources, I see :sspi: is not implemented for Unix, but there
> seems to be history of using parts of samba to provide NT domain
> authentication?)

For a unix server use ssh - it's relatively simple to setup on that platform
and is about as secure as it gets.

> Is there a (simple) way to make CVSNT on linux authenticate against
> an NT domain (without, e.g. installing winbind, that is)?

CVS doesn't do the authentication really, the OS does, so provided you have
your nsswitch setup so it works for your other services it should work
anyway.

Tony


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