On Wednesday 21 May 2008 3:55:31 am Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Jeff Robins
<jeffrobinssae_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 6:28:58 pm David Glasser wrote:
> >> Subversion 1.5 supports SASL for svnserve authentication.
> >>
> >> --dave
> >
> > Yes, but doesn't that require an external authentication manager?
> > I would like to provide a method for internal authentication using
> > non-plain-text stored passwords.
>
> SASL supports a number of sources for authentication information.
> For example it comes with SASLDB which contains commands like
> saslpasswd2 and sasldblistusers2 that you can use to maintain entries
> in the DB. This is the closest it has to our password file. On some
> operating systems it can also be connected to an LDAP server.
Thank you Mark. I didn't see any mention of this in the Wikipedia entry
and the name "Simple Authentication and Security Layer" doesn't sound
like it stores passwords.
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Received on 2008-05-22 06:19:50 CEST