RE: NTLM lookup within hook script

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood it to be the case that using Apache to do path-based security would cause extreme performance problems with Subversion. Basically I thought that lookups would be done on every svn path for operations like svn log, update, and checkout, which is a dealbreaker since within a given repo we want uniform read access, and high performance. I thought this was one of the big reasons behind svnperms. Did I misunderstand?

--Todd

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From: Miha Vitorovic [mailto:mvitorovic_at_nil.si]
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:26 PM
To: Gleason, Todd
Cc: SubVersion Users
Subject: Re: NTLM lookup within hook script

"Gleason, Todd" <tgleason_at_impac.com> wrote on 22.10.2008 04:36:28:

> I'm trying to write a pre-commit hook script along the lines of
> svnperms. The script needs to do an NTLM lookup on the user
>
> The svn server is version 1.5.2 with Apache, running on a Windows
> server. I'm hoping to implement the script in Python though I don't
> mind if I have to call into something else for the NTLM lookup.

Todd,

since you're on Apache, aren't you basically trying to reinvent the wheel (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-auth-sspi)? <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-auth-sspi>

Br,

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