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Re: On backporting r21531 to 1.4.x.

From: Samay <getafix123_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 2006-10-10 00:22:25 CEST

>>
>> with svn 1.4.x neon0.26.x, it just doesnt work. please refer to thread
>> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-09/0950.shtml for a legnthy
>> discussion
>> on how0.25.x Neon works but 0.26.1 doesnt. We resolved this issue by
>> using
>> 1.4.x compiled against 0.25.x of Neon (Thanks DJ Heap). Since TSVN 1.4.x
>> is
>> shipped with Neon 0.25.x it was ok.
>
>
> SSPI is working fine with neon 0.26.1 (dynamic options and desired
> auth behavior aside) based on the testing I did (admittedly not
> exhaustive, but quite a bit) and the feedback I've gotten. Isn't your
> problem specific to GSSAPI?
>

the problem we are seeing with 0.26.x is with server side requesting SPNego
method. SPnego is one of the five possible methods supported by SSPI by
windows on client/server side. For more accurate details please refer to
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/78cb5d3c-d0b2-4d20-a693-fa66bde1a63b1033.mspx?mfr=true

It is incorrect to say SSPI works fine when the default method
(kerberos/SPnego) doesnt work at all. You may see it working on environemnt
as its probably falling back to NTLM etc. Again SSPI is windows abstraction
API one of which is GSSAPI.

> GSSAPI (related to SSPI but a different auth protocol?) seems to have
> trouble (as in crashes) with 0.26.1 but no one can provide a server to
> test against and setting up a GSSAPI server seems to be rather
> involved.

Best bet would be to setup a few VM environments.

> I'm also fairly sure that the GSSAPI problem is not
> specific to Windows.

its same problem whether using windows or linux clients. On Linux i have
tested it to fail when using MIT-Krb5 1.4.x .. haven't had any resources to
test with Hemidal or MIT-Krb5 1.5.x. Again, problem disappears the moment we
switch to Neon 0.25.5 instead of 0.26.1 on client side :)

> And my understanding is that GSSAPI doesn't work
> at all in neon 0.25.5 -- it just always drops back to BASIC, but I
> haven't tested that myself.

I would say above is incorrect. GSSAPI works well (except for the problems
with larger repo) wih 0.25.5. Server side method is SPNego (mod_auth_kerb)
and K5Passwd set to off. None of our repositories support Basic
authentication ... thats the reason we got bitten by this problem on both
Windows & Linux. So no fall backs to Basic auth in our env.

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