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Re: LDAP Group Configuration in AuthzSVNAccessFile

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:38:09 +0200

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 02:28:53PM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Do you have a link to such a script? I've occasionally looked for one
> and never found it... was planning on writing one someday, but no
> point in reinventing the wheel.

Google "svn authz ldap" says:
http://www.thoughtspark.org/node/26

This patch to apache httpd also looks interesting:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200912.mbox/%3C4B22CFBE.401@gmx.net%3E
Though I didn't check what became of it.

Stefan
Received on 2010-03-31 23:38:37 CEST

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