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Re: svnserve SASL documentation?

From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev_at_farside.org.uk>
Date: 2007-04-10 23:30:19 CEST

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:23:50AM +0300, Vlad Georgescu wrote:
> saslauthd expects plaintext passwords, which means the passwords must
> travel over the wire in plaintext. This would be only be OK if we
> supported SSL, which we currently don't, so plaintext mechanisms are
> currently disabled. I could enable them again, if people think that's a
> good idea.
>

No; work on getting some form of TLS implemented instead.

Regards,
Malcolm

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