Re: [pcp] user/group access control question

[Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/10/14 01:56, Dave Brolley wrote:
> On 10/28/2014 07:34 PM, Ken McDonell wrote:
> > I have this change in the context of more diagnostics and the
> > extensions to qa/944, so I'll push the commit if everyone is OK with
> > that.
> OK with me. Thanks.
>
> Dave
This got delayed a little.

It turns out that if you use user or group access controls, and you try 
to access pmcd via a tcp socket (rather than a unix domain socket) then
(a) if you DO NOT have secure sockets, the access fails, but
(b) if you DO have secure sockets the SASL callback leads us back into 
libpcp where _if_ you have a console, we get a Username: and Password: 
prompt.
Case (b) is a non-starter for automated QA, so I've had to make this 
test conditional, which in turn leads to variant output files being needed.