[cvsnt] Re: Trouble with pserver on WinXP

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Sun Oct 9 20:06:17 BST 2005


Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.


John Waugh wrote:
> I must be missing something...
> 
> I thought that with pserver, authentication was accomplished by sending
> passwords in cleartext over the line.

That's user authentication, which is a different thing. 
Authenentication in the transmission sense is a guarantee that the data 
wasn't modified during transmission, which pserver cannot provide.

> or does "Require authentication" imply it needs an ssh connection or
> somesuch?

It's more a gserver/sspi thing, although sserver and ssh have them (it's 
implied by using encryption).

Tony



More information about the cvsnt mailing list
Download the latest CVSNT, TortosieCVS, WinCVS etc. for Windows 8 etc.
@CVSNT on Twitter   CVSNT on Facebook