Re: [SVN-DEV] RE: Auth in ra_dav

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:58:04PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
>...
> Yes, that was something on my mind too :)
> I'll speak to Ben Laurie again and see if he can explain the details
> of the certificate generation process to me. I'll then get started
> on such a conversion util (which we could dump in /contrib ?) provided it
> is at all possible. In any case I'll report back here.

I would hope that you would contribute it to the Subversion project, and
we'd check it into the tools directory.

> Greg gave a good insight on the authentication part of my question(s), thx.
> As for the authorization part, that's going to work through hooks which
> is a 'Good Thing' because it is easily custimizable. Once the protocol
> is set for the r/w sentinels (or once you get discussing these) I'll jump
> in again ;)

Apache does both authentication and authorization. I'm still waiting for
people to explain what kinds of authz they want that Apache can't handle. Or
for a specific design that they'd like to see, which we could then use
within the standard Apache authz system.

[ as you may have guessed, I'm not a fan of external authz systems. and I
  think that I may even disagree with the sentinel concept (need more
  research and thinking on that) (it seems they just kind of appeared while
  I was away; either that, or whothehellknows where I was :-)) ]

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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