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RE: 1.5 clients can't authenticate to 1.4.6 Server

From: John Niven <jniven_at_bravurasolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:44:15 +1100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dan [mailto:danwalkeriv_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 06:49
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: 1.5 clients can't authenticate to 1.4.6 Server
>
> We've been using Subversion for a while now in our lab with
> the following setup:
>
> The server is an Ubuntu Hardy machine with the standard Subversion
> 1.4.6 installed, which is accessed through apache. We are
> using digest authentication.
>
> Here is the relevant portion of our apache.conf file:
>
> <Location /subversion >
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> DAV svn
> SVNParentPath /home/subversion
>
> AuthzSVNAccessFile /home/subversion/svn.auth
> AuthType Digest
> AuthName "Subversion"
> AuthDigestProvider file
> AuthUserFile /home/webauth/webauth.password
> AuthDigestDomain /webauth
> Require valid-user
> </Location>
>
> Recently, people have been updating to 1.5 clients, and we
> are finding that they can no longer authenticate in order to
> commit. Is this a known problem? Do we need to update the
> configuration in some way?

Slighty different configuration (1.3 vs. 1.4, and mod_auth_sspi vs. digest auth) but I used a 1.5 client against a 1.3 repository and could authenticate without any problems. In what way are your users unable to authenticate? What error message are they getting?

Cheers
John

>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> --dan
>
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