Re: SASL authentication in 1.5.4

I figured it out... When I reinstalled 1.5.4 (over 1.5.2) the installer
overwrote the registry entries at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Carnegie
Mellon\Project Cyrus\SASL Library (ConfFile and SearchPath). So I mistakenly
changed *both* of them to my repository's conf folder (where I've got my
SASL config file) instead of just ConfFile! I reinstalled 1.5.4 again and
just changed the ConfFile entry this time... and now my repository does
correctly SASL-authenticate using 1.5.4 :)

Regarding Subversion vs VSS... From what I've seen of Subversion, it has
some big advantages over VSS; in fact, I can't think of a single reason to
stay with VSS. I've even persuaded my company of the benefits of moving to
Subversion, so we'll be migrating our projects within a couple of months
once we're comfortable with it.

2008/12/18 Harvey, Edward <Edward.Harvey_at_patni.com>

> Were you using the CollabNet one before? Exactly the same download,
> simply 1.5.2 versus 1.5.4 is the only difference? SASL is certainly still
> supported as well as it was before. There may be some SASL details that
> logically explain what broke, (like a config file or registry entry that
> habitually gets clobbered by installing the server) but I don't know that
> very well.
>
> Also, just to be sure - SVN and VSS are totally different product types.
> The only thing they both have in common is that you can revert back to
> previous versions of files sometimes. VSS instantly snapshots a whole drive
> automatically on a schedule (and automatically bumps off old versions as
> disk space requires.) While SVN only tracks things as you specify, when you
> specify, is designed to never lose any old version of anything, and requires
> filesystem work to do its job. A new file is created? You must tell SVN to
> care about that file. You changed a file? You must tell SVN to commit that
> change. Etc. Very very different from VSS.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Graham Bull [mailto:calzakk_at_gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:23 PM
> *To:* users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> *Subject:* SASL authentication in 1.5.4
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if SASL authentication is broken in Subversion 1.5.4? (I'm
> using the CollabNet Subversion Server download for Windows)
>
> I'm new to Subversion - currently evaluating it as a potential replacement
> for VSS - and have a repository originally created by 1.5.2.
> I just upgraded to 1.5.4 but now I can't access the repository. I've
> deleted the cached auth folder and recreated my login using saslpasswd2, but
> now I just get
>
> svn: Authentication error from server: SASL(-13): user not found:
> Unable to find a callback: 2
>
> whenever I execute 'svn list svn://localhost'. This used to work, so either
> 1.5.4 is broken or I'm doing something stupid!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham
>
>
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