Re: Apache2/SVN Public Key Authentication

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:13:18 -0700 (PDT)
BRM <bm_witness_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> > ----- Original Message ----
>
> > From: Mark K <mark_at_mitsein.net>
> > To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:38:56 PM
> > Subject: Re: Apache2/SVN Public Key Authentication
> > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
> > BRM <bm_witness_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > A colleague and I are working on switch over a system from CVS to
> > > SVN. Under CVS we are using SSH with shared keys, and we would
> > > like to do the same under a WebDAV hosted SVN repository system,
> > > falling back to passwords only (if) necessary. (I realize web
> > > browsers won't support the shared keys authentication, but that's
> > > okay.) Is anyone aware of an Apache2 module (Apache 2.0, debian
> > > sarge) that would be able to offer this support?
> > Why wouldn't you just keep using ssh with shared keys with svn?
> >
>
> B/c using svnserve or file access (as with svn+ssh) leads to
> permissions problems that are easily solved by using Apache2
> WebDAV/SVN, and hosting over Apache2 WebDAV is far easier to maintain.
>
> Ben
>
>

Aren't you already doing that with CVS?

At any rate, I don't think you can do publickey authen against Apache,
but you _can_ do authen by client certificates. However, I am not sure
that something like that would work with subversion.

-- 
Mark K
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