[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8570) no auth for gtk2 client

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8570 >

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> attached is a patch that fixes authentication for freeciv. I've removed
> capability requirement for auth.

What does this mean? Will non-auth-capable clients crash?

> None of these options are available unless --enable-auth is passed to
> autogen.sh. I'm wondering if this is necessary anymore. Perhaps auth
> should be compiled in by default and --enable-auth should be replaced by a
> --authdb-lib=[] option to allow changing the database. This is open for
> discussion, but beyond the scope of the present patch.

I think this is a good idea.

  - Per