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Player authentification patch for Freeciv 1.14.1.
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AUTHORS

Goran Rakic <gox@devbase.net>, 20. Aug 2004.
MD5 implementation by Christophe Devine.


ABOUT

This is authentification patch for Freeciv version
1.14.1. This patch add support for player login with
user and password, witch is very important for so called
turn per day games where players can leave game while
other players do their turns.

It is compatible with ALL Freeciv clients, as password
is entered as a apendix to username. So, instead of 
username, enter username:password to login on Freeciv
server.

Passwords are stored as a MD5 hashes, so it is safe
to save and load game as passwords are never leaved
unencrypthed once they come to server.

Game is not alerted with this patch, so all gameplay is
the same.


INSTALATION

Copy md5.c and md5.h filles to server subdirectory
under freeciv source tree. Than apply auth patch
with following command when you are in server 
subdirectory:

  patch -p2 < freeciv-1.14.1-auth.patch

After that do standard compilation of Freeciv server.


COPYING

This is patch is published under GNU GPL licence, version 2.
Reffer to online version of licence on www.gnu.org website
for full text of it.




