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

["Jason Short" <jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


>> 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.

Auth support should always be present in the client.  The server thus needs to 
be compatabile with these clients, but may have dummy auth support.  Of course 
the database should be settable at config time (or even at runtime).

jason