Re: non-interactive user authentication

In a message dated: 07 Oct 2002 11:40:14 CDT
Karl Fogel said:

>Paul Lussier <pll@lanminds.com> writes:
>> I'm not advocating ssh as the only mechanism, just that an external,
>> modular approach might be best. For instance, rsync allows the use
>> of either rsh or ssh. Couldn't svn do the same?

>You tell me :-).

I can't, I don't know much about svn, I just started playing with it
last week. And I'm not a developer, I'm a sysadmin with a little
spare time right now :)

Perhaps I'm confused about exactly what the issues are here. It
appeared to me that someone was looking for a better way to
authenticate such that they didn't have to always enter a username
and password, and this is something that rsync solves by delegating
the authentication off to rsh/ssh.

>If Apache can support it, our client should be able
>to do it. The auth mechanisms supported by our server have already
>been decided for us...

So, the svn server limited only to what apache supports? Is that
because of the integration of the WebDAV/DeltaV stuff?
(remeber, I'm new to svn, and really haven't digested all of
how it works yet)

>Of course, there's always tunneling over some secure protocol. I'm
>talking about other auth methods used with http, besides that
>technique.

I wonder if there's a way for Apache to delegate the auth mechanism
to something external to itself such as I suggested? Hmmm. That
would make for some neat combinations...

I guess the short answer is, if the auth is limited to what Apache
supports, and Apache doesn't support external "plug in" type auth
mechanisms, then my suggestion is overly helpful :(

Sorry.

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Paul
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