[LDAPsh-devel] Re: Hi

[Rafael C. <Raf...@li...>]

In reply to message from Peder O. Klingenberg:
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Hello Peder,

> An idea for the longer term is to support
> #!/usr/bin/ldapsh and write scripts in
> ldapsh syntax

This is a good idea. I had another idea is to make
ldapsh a module and a script. The script just beeing
something like "use LDAPsh; shell;". Just like CPAN
does.

> I'll be uploading a couple of patches to sourceforge
> in a moment (nothing big, just details).

I applied 2 of them. The "diff1" patch should be updated
to allow users to choose the encryption SSL or TLS. In
fact, my ADS and OpenLDAP car do SSL, but are not setup
to do TLS... I'm probably not the only one...

> One thing I'm seeing which I'm not quite sure how
> to fix yet is the ReadLine::GNU password handling.
> My xterm prints funny characters around the "Password:"
> prompt, and if I type the wrong password, it's echoed
> back at me.  Several times, in fact.  Anyone else seeing
> this? I'll be looking at it in more detail later on.

I already saw something similar with some terminals.
I think it's closely related to ReadLine::GNU and I
didn't go more in-depth to see where does the problem
comes from.


> Two questions: Why is the CVS structure as it is?
> It's impossible to check out the project as a module
> using anonymous pserver, I had to check out each file
> explicitly.  Other sf projects I have worked on have
> their files under /cvsroot//, so that
> 'cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...sf.net:/cvsroot/ co '
> work.

The only reason is: ignorance ;-)
I didn't though on that issue. I don't understand very well
sourceforge architecture so I just followed the
recommendations I found on one of the docs.
What do you expect exactly? Do you want me to create a
ldapsh directory under /cvsroot/ldapsh? So you can do:
cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/ldapsh co ldapsh ?
Because I tried your setting:
"cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...sf.net:/cvsroot/ co "
but I don't understand how can it works since /cvsroot is
not owned by me...


> Next: What does it take to get ssh access to ldapsh cvs?  I'm
> currently behind a firewall that does not allow pserver through.  To
> do anything useful I have to check out ldapsh to another machine, and
> scp files through the firewall, which is kind of a hassle.

I'm not familiar with sourceforge environment, but if you point
me to a doc which explains how to do so, I'd be happy ;-)))

Thanks a lot
Rafael