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Re: svn: Cannot negotiate authentication mechanism

From: Andrew Miller <ajmiller_at_engr.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:48:39 -0400

If anyone cares, I've given up on the binary from CollabNet Community
Downloads, and built from source for myself. Svn commit appears to
work normally now.
Thanks
--Andrew

On Aug 3, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Andrew Miller wrote:

> We've just installed subversion 1.5.1 on machine that hosts our
> repositories, and also installed it on many of our client machines.
> We're running Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and we installed the binaries
> from CollabNet Community Downloads. We normally use svn+ssh for the
> connection protocol and have no need for sasl. On our server,
> svnserve.conf is not set to enable sasl. According to
> <http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/sasl.txt>
>
> "All 1.x clients, with or without Cyrus SASL support, will be able
> to authenticate against all 1.x servers that do not have Cyrus SASL
> enabled. Note that the CRAM-MD5 and ANONYMOUS mechanisms are
> actually built into Subversion, so you'll be able to use them even
> if the corresponding Cyrus SASL plugins are missing."
>
> So why are we seeing this error message when we attempt to commit
> using a 1.5.1 client?
> "svn: Cannot negotiate authentication mechanism"
>
> Is this a bug in the CollabNet Community build for OS X?
> Thanks
> --Andrew
>
> On Aug 2, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Andrew Miller wrote:
>
>> Can someone tell me what causes this error message on commit?
>>
>> svn: Cannot negotiate authentication mechanism
>>
>>
>> We're using svn 1.5.1 on both ends.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -- Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>

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