[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #844: Perforce authentication is misleading

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#844: Perforce authentication is misleading
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Reporter:  pcmantz      |       Owner:       
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new  
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  0.8.2
 Version:  0.7.12       |    Keywords:  p4   
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Comment(by pcmantz):

 I haven't tested this patch, but it doesn't appear to address the
 nomenclature issue in the perforce poller; i.e., that what is called
 self.p4passwd in the poller is actually the ticket.

 To really solve this issue as described, the poller needs to authenticate
 and retrieve a new ticket when the old one expires using the *real*
 perforce password.  This could be settled with a cron job, for instance,
 but it would be better if this were handled directly by the poller.

 There appears to be a project for perforce bindings in native python
 located at http://code.google.com/p/python-p4lib/ which may prove fruitful
 if people think that wrapping comman-line calls is too nasty.  However, I
 haven't even looked at the code; this is only a suggestion.

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