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Re: Different kinds of authentication for svnserve

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-07-15 23:08:29 CEST

You might want to repost with 'svnserve' in the Subject line, so Greg
Hudson is sure to see it :-). (I've done so in this followup.)

Tony Hoyle <tmh@nodomain.org> writes:
> Someone on the cvsnt list asked about doing this, and it sounds like
> an interesting project... basically adding SSPI & SSL to svnserve. I
> could lash something together in a couple of hours, probably but
> reckon it's better to ask here first & do it properly :)
>
> Presumably this has been thought of, so someone's already gone through
> how it should hang together... hardcode it in with #ifdef _WIN32,
> loadable shared libraries, or some other method. For cvsnt I had a
> group of shared libraries that the program enumerated for protocols to
> support.
>
> For the client side, is using svn+sspi:// or just sspi:// prerered?
> (I'd guess the svn+... syntax, from looking at the code).
>
> (btw. I would do ssh, for which I have a patched Putty DLL, but you're
> already using that for external protocols :/).
>
> In the back of my mind is an idea of writing a CVS Client/Server
> Protocol -> svnserve wrapper... sounds easier than the effort
> currently required to take cvsnt itself to the next stage (which is
> ditching RCS, having reached the limits of its abilities) plus it'd
> mean I wouldn't be solely responsible for fixing bugs any more :)))
>
> Is there any code at the moment for gzipping the output and/or
> encrypting it? Certainly the gzip would help as checking out the
> subversion repository was really slow given that it's mostly text
> files. Encryption is switchable with sspi (although it's only really
> 'secure' on an Active Directory over kerberos... NTLM is a bit of a
> joke... people want it though).
>
> Tony
>
> btw. Forgive the noob questions... I've skimmed the design document
> but haven't had time to read it properly yet.

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