CVS Provider should support SSPI transport
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                 Key: SCM-277
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-277
             Project: Maven SCM
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: maven-scm-provider-cvs
         Environment: Windows XP Pro, CVSNT 2.0.51d, Maven 2.0.4
            Reporter: Daniel Siegmann
         Attachments: AbstractCvsScmProvider.java.patch

The CVS provider should support connections via the SSPI protocol (for Windows 
domain authentication). Though this is not supported by CVS, it is supported by 
CVSNT (which is a superset of CVS, and is open source).

The SCM connection should should be specified as: 
{{scm:cvs:sspi:host:path:module}}

I have implemented this functionality. The only changes are in 
AbstractCvsScmProvider.java, for which I have attached a patch. The changes are 
hopefully easy to understand. The only limitation I have noticed in my 
implementation is that CvsScmProviderRepository cannot be created with a null 
user. So I have passed in "" for the user. This results in an additional '@' 
symbol prefixing the host which should not be present, but this has not caused 
any errors in my tests.

I have not provided any unit tests, since there are no unit tests for the other 
transports. I have simply done some testing on my local system. I was able to 
successfully use both scm:update and scm:checkin.

I did have one error when using scm:checkin. This command failed due to the 
property connectionUrl not being defined. This property should retrieve its 
value from the SCM connection defined in the POM. When I explicitly defined 
this property on the command line, scm:checkin completed successfully. I do not 
know whether this is related to the work I have done, but I assume this is 
handled elsewhere. Please let me know if I should file a separate bug report.

Note that this functionality will require that the CVS executable (cvs.exe) 
which is present on the path be provided by CVSNT.

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