Re: [RFC] Adding a challenge-response authentication method to git://

["Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>I'd do it like this instead:

>daemon: auth_user = dlsym(dlopen("auth-module.so", RTLD_NOW), 
>"authenticat");

>This approach has several nifty benefits:
>* The otherwise duplicated code (for different auth schemes) is
> done only once (in the git daemon).

I'd prefer that to be in a separate program, instead of git-daemon
proper.

>* If the git daemon has no authentication module loaded, we might
> as well not bother sending any challenge and just pretend we do
> not know about the authentication scheme.

Loading modules is highly fragile across different OSes, so it's not
really recommended at all.

>* Modules is a great way for newcomers to get started contributing to
> git so it's a nice way of getting more contributors/sub-maintainers.

If by "modules" you mean dynamically loaded libraries, then I
wholeheartedly disagree.
-- 
Sincerely,
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

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