[TSVN] odd authentication problems

Hello all.

I chose today to implement the switch to subversion on a major project and
it went a bit pear-shaped. I've had to roll back and regroup.

I've got apache2 serving a mod-svn accessible repository.

I've been testing TSVN for a while (smashing work!) and the 1.1.1 release
seemed to work well with my mod_perl Apache::AuthenNTLM configuration.

This authenticates to a local samba 3.0.7 PDC and the auth details were
successfully encrypted in the registry.

However, when I tried to demonstrate the new directory moving mechanism to
the lead developer, the right-click menus didn't appear. Doh!

Then I tried to move the files in the directory using the repo-browser
interface. The authentication system started playing up and started asking
for the credentials again. It always failed to authenticate at this point
and the mod_perl output stated that the authentication header Basic was
missing.

This behaviour was pretty much the same with and without ssl.

I downloaded the nightly build and gave that a go. The menus appeared and
it seemed that I could drag and drop the directories, but when I committed
my changes, the authentication problems remained.

The mod_perl output was no longer missing the Basic authentication header,
but it still didn't authenticate properly.

Apache::AuthenNTLM is at version 2.07 and I think I failed to upgrade it
to 2.08 during the confusion today.

The error says something about, erm "samba not being in state 3"

I'd appreciate it if anyone has any insight on the matter.

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Incidentally, has anyone given any thought to using ntlm directly from
TortoiseSVN?

I saw a patch someone posted somewhere (but vague, sorry) , claiming to
add ntlm support to neon. Isn't that the http library used here?

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Ben Tullis
IT Manager
Infomatrix Ltd.

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Received on Thu Nov 4 02:09:08 2004