Re: Automatic windows authentication using serf/svn 1.8

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:48:35AM +0300, Gert Kello wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Our team is using subversion server hosted on windows machine by Apache and
> https protocol and is using SSPI authentication. With svn 1.7 everything
> works fine, including automatic authentication with currently logged in
> windows user.
>
> Today I upgraded to svn 1.8 and the automatic authentication does not work
> anymore. If I set http-library = serf then 1.7 client fails to perform
> automatic authentication as well.
>
> Is there some configuration setting I am missing or is it limitation of
> serf library?
>
> Gert

I don't know anything about Windows authentication, but I could
get some hints from Ivan Zhakov via IRC (he doesn't follow this
mailing list). Perhaps this information helps:

Apparently, if the server uses NTLM only, serf cannot authenticate
to it, while neon could. serf supports SPNego though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPNEGO

Does this apply to your situation? Can you fix the problem by
changing the server's configuration?

The 1.8 release notes currently do not document the issue with NTLM-only
servers. In my opinion they should mention it.
Received on 2013-06-19 13:02:52 CEST