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Re: SVN + LDAP

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:21:55 -0400

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 16:54, Stephen Connolly
<stephen.alan.connolly_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> My :-( about windows is more about how to get integration with active
> directory authentication (strangely enough)

VisualSVN Server makes this very, very easy. It's really just a
front-end to SVN over Apache, but hides all the ugliness of the LDAP
configuration.

> 2009/3/18 Modha Khammammettu <MKhammammettu_at_calcas.com>
>>
>>
>> This gets me concerned is there a problem with Windows and SVN?
>> Is there a recommended OS for best performance?
>> ________________________________
>> From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:stephen.alan.connolly_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:12 PM
>> To: Jeremy Whitlock
>> Cc: Modha Khammammettu; users_at_subversion.tigris.org
>> Subject: Re: SVN + LDAP
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/3/18 Jeremy Whitlock <jcscoobyrs_at_gmail.com>
>>>
>>> > I heard using LDAP authentication slows down SVN Server, is it the
>>> > case.
>>>
>>> Well, there is some extra overhead of course so slow downs should be a
>>> given.  I mean, there is the network communication from the Subversion
>>> server to the directory server, there is the binding to the directory
>>> server and then there is the query required to authenticate the user.
>>
>> That is why I went for the saslauthd route as it will cache the
>> authentication so that if you're commmitting all day you don't get the
>> overhead.
>>
>>>
>>> It is unavoidable but in most cases, it's better than tolerable.
>>>
>>> > If there are no issues with SVN + LDAP can you please point me to
>>> > documentation on best method of making this happen.
>>> > I googled and then got a ton of different links each with different
>>> > methods.
>>>
>>> Doesn't get much easier than this:
>>>
>>> http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2009/03/subversion-with-apache-and-ldap-updated.html
>>
>> Or there's my blog on svn + saslauthd + active directory (running svn on
>> centos)
>>
>>
>> http://javaadventure.blogspot.com/2008/11/howto-centos-5-apache-22-subversion-15.html
>>
>>>
>>> > I have SVN on windows server.
>>>
>>> Sorry to hear that.  With this being the case, I'm sure you're
>>> connecting to Active Directory.  Make sure to read the part about
>>> using a Global Catalog.
>>
>> Sorry to hear that also ;-)
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Take care,
>>>
>>> Jeremy Whitlock
>>> http://www.thoughtspark.org
>>>
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