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It's pretty easy. If you have a CVS checkout, just change the files 
and run "cvs diff -u filename > diff.txt". You can create a diff that 
spans multiple files, but if just doing it once for each file is 
easiest for you, that's fine for getting started. If you don't have 
CVS, just get the latest file from somewhere and do "diff -u 
originalfile yourfile > diff.txt"



See http://www.horde.org/source/contribute.php for a recap and if you 
explore the /source section, or Google, you'll find plenty of other 
CVS/diff/patch documentation.

SOrry, i do not understand enough about CVS and unified diffs to be of 
help here.



If a unified diff is the only permissable form in which to submit 
patches, i cannot provide any data.

Are you going to provide a diff?

http://ximbiot.com/cvs/cvshome/docs/
Submitted patches should always be against most recent CVS code, so yes.
Merge your changes into the *.dist files. Then create a diff against those.

I guess i know to little about CVS.



Am i supposed to take a "clean" CVS tree and make the changes, and 
then issue that command?



What if i have not used the conf.dist file, but rather i have a 
conf-file which only contains this driver. How do i create a unified 
diff the proper way?

cvs diff -u

So what _is_ a unified diff then?

This is not a unified diff, not uploaded as an attachment to the 
ticket, and still doesn't contain changes to docs/INSTALL.

Diff:



408a409,432

Wierd... I thought i did post that as a comment. I'll redo that tomorrow.

Are you going to provide the patches?

Please provide the configuration file changes as a unified diff, as 
well as additions necessary to docs/INSTALL.

Here is a driver for using passwd with XAMS 0.0.15 and a small readme.



All credit should go to Oliver Siegmar (Lead developer for the now 
hibernating XAMS)



Here is a backends.php snippet



//Note, the driver is only tested on XAMS 0.0.15

//The driver handles both normal accounts and unique user names

//Please verify that you are using _Full_ user name in the config for passwd

//Change hostspec, username, password and database to match your XAMS

//You can find this info in your xams.conf

//Driver and config snippet by oliver.siegmar@xams.org

//Silly little commet for driver (and nagging Oliver to write the 
driver) by j2@mupp.net

//

$backends['xams'] = array (

     'name' => 'XAMS Server',

     'preferred' => '',

     'password policy' => array(

         'minLength' => 5,

         'maxLength' => 31,

         'maxSpace' => 0,

         'minUpper' => 1,

         'minLower' => 1,

         'minNumeric' => 1,

         'minSymbols' => 0

     ),

     'driver' => 'xams',

     'params' => array(

         'phptype'    => 'mysql',

         'hostspec'   => 'localhost',

         'username'   => 'xamsusername',

         'password'   => 'xamsusernamedbpassword',

         'encryption' => 'md5-hex',

         'database'   => 'xamsdatabasename',

         'show_encryption' => false

     )

);