Re: AuthzSVNAccessFile and [alias]

To clarify, you want the left-hand side of an alias line to be the full DN, right?

How is this going to work? Does our ini parser allow the LHS to contain
embedded '=' sign?

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_subr/config_file.c
http://docs.python.org/library/configparser

Esmond Pitt wrote on Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 16:08:00 +1000:
> The value of an alias in the AuthzSVNAccess file seems constrained to be
> whatever login name the user used.
>
> However I am using LDAP authentication, and it is preferable for me for it
> to be the full DN of the user rather than whatever he supplied as the login
> name.
>
> I have 'AuthLDAPRemoteUserIsDN on', which promotes this behaviour for the
> REMOTE_USER variable within Apache.
>
> Is there a way of propagating that behaviour to the AuthzSVNAccess file?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> EJP
Received on 2012-09-15 00:45:36 CEST