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Sat Apr 17 16:46:26 EDT 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-April/044361.html

On Friday 16 April 2004 05:30 pm, Skip Montanaro wrote:
 > Alas, I was told that wouldn't work in our environment.  Permission
 > problems or something.  (IOW, more administrative struggle than I was
 > prepared to deal with. ;-)

There's the little matter that CVS users don't necessarily map one-to-one with 
user accounts on the host with pserver to deal with as well.

 >     Fred> Hint: the pserver puts the username used to authenticate in the
 >     Fred> CVS_USER environment variable when running scripts from the
 > admin Fred> files (like loginfo).
 >
 > This worked perfectly.

This is something syncmail should probably support out of the box.  If you'd 
like to submit a patch, we'd love to have it:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/cvs-syncmail/

  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation

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