> From: Daniel Patterson [mailto:danpat@adaptiveinternational.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:14 AM
> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 05:07, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. Löwis) writes:
> > > This module allows to set the user field in an Apache request object,
> > > if a user has been authenticated through SSL. It is configurable
> > > through a mod_ssl variable name, such as SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN.
> > >
> > > With that module, Subversion will write proper author information in
> > > commit messages.
> >
> > So this means that Subversion repositories no longer need to require
> > "Basic Auth" credentials over SSL? They have other options now?
>
> Can't the existing "SSLOption FakeBasicAuth" be used to achieve this
> also?
>
> (albeit, not as flexible, but it has existed for a long time)
Not flexible enough. Unless you want authors that look like DNs...
Sander
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Received on Thu Jun 19 00:18:13 2003