Re: Auth in ra_dav

"Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is it going to be possible to write a different authentication
> mechanism than something that requires a username/password?
> I'm talking about a plugin that might take a username/ssh private
> key file.

Sure. libsvn_client and libsvn_ra have a "PAM"-like authentication
architecture. Only two methods are defined: username only, and
username/password. But you can write more of them. Look in svn_ra.h
more more information.

> Ofcourse this should _not_ be stored in the wc.

Right now, all authentication info is saved in SVN/auth/, which is
chmod'ed to 0700. Is that not safe enough for you? :-)

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:36 2006