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RE: Windows Authentication and/or suggestion

From: Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 09:40:32 -0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hsantos [mailto:sant9442_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: 05 March 2011 10:13
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Windows Authentication and/or suggestion
>
> Hi
>
> To prepare the migration process from our long time usage of CVS based
> projects to SVN, I successfully installed and got the current versions
> of SUBVERSION, Apache APR web server running. Instructions were
> overall pretty good for the basic/quick installation and testing.
>
> But I don't get how to setup for Windows authentication. I have been
> exploring SVN usage, the SVN repository framework, creating of
> repositories and import process, but I had to set anonymous write
> permission and/or use the passwd file to be able to import.
>
> I have two somewhat related questions:
>
> 1) I prefer to use windows authentication, what are the basic steps
> here in preparing both SVNSERVE (and Apache APR?

What exactly do you mean by "windows authentication"? Do you use Active
Directory? In which case look into apache's mod_ldap module but you'll
want to switch to https if you are using http so that you are not
transmitting usernames and passwords in plain text...

> 2) I did not see a way or set/edit default files, if any, used for the
> new repository conf folder files?
>
> I was looking at #2 when I figured if I can do #1 I can avoid #2.
>
Indeed, using apache means those files are ignored AFAIK...

~ mark c
Received on 2011-03-07 10:41:14 CET

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