Re: Should missing smart card support not be added in the release notes?

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Lieven Govaerts <lgo_at_apache.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> see subject. Serf and ra_serf don't have smart card support at this
>> moment, unlike neon.
>>
>> I'd expected this to be mentioned in the release notes for 1.8.0 as
>> this is not new information (at least I hope so), but I can't find
>> anything about it.
>>
> Serf doesn't support smart cards for SSL based authentication, but
> SPNego (Kerberos/NTLM) smart authentication works fine.

Ah, didn't know that. So you use your smart card to log in to Windows
and/or to the domain, which then enables single sign-on to a
Kerberos-enabled svn server right?

In such a scenario, would you make the SSL layer additionally request
a valid client certificate?

Lieven
Received on 2013-06-04 13:20:39 CEST