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Re: LDAP Group Configuration in AuthzSVNAccessFile

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:25:38 +0200

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:40:13PM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Lee Kaufman
> <lee.kaufman_at_transmetric.com> wrote:
> > I have been set the task of setting up SVN and connecting Authentication and
> > Authorization to our MS Active Directory system.  The SVN is now running on
> > a Debian Linux server.  I have successfully set up Authenticated to
> > authenticate users who have access to the SVN system based on a Security
> > Group in our AD.
> >
> > The next task is where I am encountering the difficulty is in Authorizing
> > individual users to read and write to the individual repositories.  From
> > what I have seen I need I to do this I need a AuthzSVNAccessFile file.
> > However I have not been able to find any documentation on how to accomplish
> > this using AD groups.  Below is a simple example.
>
> Last time I checked, you can't do authorization via LDAP/AD. Just
> authentication. Hence the lack of documentation on the subject.

Various wrapper scripts exist which generate an authz rules file
from data pulled from LDAP/AD directories. I agree that it would
be nice to have built-in support for this in mod_authz_svn though.

Stefan
Received on 2010-03-31 23:26:09 CEST

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