Re: Request: svnserve auth vs. system

> 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.

I'm also interested in this, with the caveat of using integrated
windows authentication.

Quoting from http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/sasl.txt

"Subversion 1.5 introduces support for the Cyrus SASL (Simple Authentication
  and Security Layer) library for the svn:// protocol and svnserve server."

and

"... and, in addition, provides a host of other mechanisms such as
DIGEST-MD5, OTP (One-Time Passwords), GSSAPI (used for Kerberos
authentication), NTLM (NT LAN Manager), SRP (Secure Remote Password),
and others."

So I'm hoping that the GSSAPI mechanism will enable integrated windows
authentication, presumably leaving the authorization as it currently
standards.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this hope, so I would humbly request that a
document along similar lines as to the following is created for
windows users:
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/windows-service.txt

I will happy convert any such file to docbook and submit a patch to
the nice TortoiseSVN folks for inclusion in their documentation.

cheers
si

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