[p4] Pass through authentication

[Markus Beller]

Hi Shawn,

which version of Perforce do you use? Since version 2004.2 Perforce has introduced the so called "tickets" (ticket-based authentication). To authenticate you must run a "p4 loigin" which creates a ticked on your local account. This ticket has an expiration
time that can be changed to your needs. As long as this ticket is valid any application can access the Perforce depots without prompting for the password. But note that the application must be able to use ticket-based authentication (P4Win for example
does).

See the manual for further details:
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.052/manuals/p4guide/02_config.html#1076443

or have a look at the perforce commands "p4 login" and "p4 logout"...

Regards
Markus




On 31.05.2006 16:40:06 "Jamison, Shawn" wrote:

>Does any know if Perforce has plans for pass through authentication?
>
>I'll explain since this may only make sense to me :)
>
>I login to my workstation, be it windows or *nix.  To me that creates an
>authenticated session.
>
>That information should be available to ANY application run on that
>platform.  I should be able to open a Perforce client and my credentials
>from my "session" should be passed to Perforce and either accepted or
>denied.
>
>The only caveat should be that my Perforce ID needs to be identical my
>login id.
>
>Again, does any know if Perforce has plans for this type of
>authentication?
>
>I really don't like the authentication triggers.  That just seems like a
>klunky afterthought to me.
>
>Thanks
>-Shawn J>
>
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