Re: SVN LDAP authentication with SASL

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:08 PM, james donovan <james13d_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> We would like to use ldap user authentication for SVN. We have upgraded to
> SVN 1.5 RC5 that supports sasl and I'm using RedHat 5. I'm sure that we have
> sasl configured to talk to ldap correctly and we have ldap configured
> correctly by the success of the two command:

> I've added a svn.conf file:
>
> [root_at_cobra sasl2]# more /opt/CollabNet_Subversion/lib/sasl2/svn.conf
> pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> auxprop_plugin: ldap

Don't you still need to specify the mechs you want to use?

mech_list: ANONYMOUS DIGEST-MD5

> When I try to connect to the svn repository I get an error:
>
> % /opt/CollabNet_Subversion/bin/svn co svn://cobra/d01/repos15/test
> Username: hbl313
> Password for 'hbl3135':
> svn: Authentication error from server: SASL(-13): user not found: no OTP
> secret in database
>
> Doing a trace on svnserve, it's looking for a local database /etc/sasldb2
> and not connecting to ldap.

OTP is one of the possible SASL mechs. So maybe you just need to
specify the ones you want to use and it will not try to use it?

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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