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Re: Request: svnserve auth vs. system

From: Jeff D <fixedored_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:14:21 -0800

Greywolf wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> [you probably already saw me on irc but...]
>
> I wish to submit a request to have svnserve authenticate its users via
> the system rather than authenticating vs. a cleartext passwd auth file.
> I'm surprised this ability doesn't really exist.
>
> svn+ssh: has been suggested to me, but "svn+ssh:" is a semihassle to
> request on the command line, and setting up keys and such, while a small
> hurdle, is an extra step I didn't really want to deal with.
>
> I'll look into it and see what grief it brings me, but I'm requesting
> this nonetheless. If anyone else feels that this would be truly useful,
> please say so. I probably won't bring it up again for a while.
>
> Many thanks, and thanks for a great version control project, the above
> notwithstanding. SVN did me the favour of making me really look at how
> revision control and change management is done, as well as it allows me
> the freedom of doing it in differently appropriate ways for different
> types of projects.
>
> [FWIW: Dev/, Release/, and Main/ turn out to be REALLY good names
> for things! Well, for me, anyway...]
>
> --*greywolf;
> --

One thing you may want to check out is authenticating through
apache/ldap or mod_auth_pam. I haven't done the mod_auth_pam but I have
used ldap and it works out fine.

hth,
Jeff

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