Re: SVN and Authorization

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 06:48:46PM -0700, Josh Siegel wrote:
>...
> Obviously some pam-like authentication modules for LDAP/AD will have to be
> written...Currently, my version of CVS can be set to execute a external
> shell script for authentication. We use a smbclient to authenticate windows
> users but plan on switching over to LDAP once we've upgraded the core
> servers to Windows 2000
>
> Of course, we use the same authentication scripts for our apache server...

For the Apache side, you could use mod_ntlm today:

    http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/

When you upgrade your servers, you could switch to mod_auth_ldap. (note that
the latter is already incorporated into the Apache 2.0 CVS, although it will
probably move from the std. distro to an ASF "rollup" distro)

One of the reasons that we chose Apache for our network server is its
flexibility in authentication systems. There was no way that we (the SVN
team) wanted to do a bunch of work for each possible authentication
mechanism out there (or come up with our own(?!!)).

Cheers,
-g

p.s. okay... so I needed to convince the other guys about using Apache to
avoid the auth situation, but it didn't take too long to show them the
Light... :-)

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