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SSH docs and SASL

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:48:16 +0000

Hi folks,

I have been doing a bit more digging on the SSH docs, in particular in
the svn book nightly.

The setup described in our FAQ uses a single SSH user account with a
different key for each real user. The reason you would want to do that
is mainly that you want to secure the traffic over the internet rather
than use the default plaintext that svnserve uses.

The svn book nightly now recommends using SASL for better
authentication and encryption, and recommends using svn+ssh only if
you already have an SSH infrastructure, with one account per user
which you want to use. Even then it does not recommend it.

So, I am wondering a) do we want to add the SSH instructions to our
docs just as they are becoming less relevant and b) does anyone have
any experience with SASL so we can provide a simple guide to setting
up a server that way instead?

Our Apache section only deals with setting up a Windows server, so we
could assume the same for svnserve and SASL.

Simon

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