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Re: SVN E170001: Authentication error with specific user/realm/pw combinations while many other work!

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:51:54 +0200

On 13.04.2018 19:55, NOCERA, ANDY wrote:
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> Summary: SVN E170001: Authentication error with specific user/realm/pw
> combinations while many other work!
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> Observations/Workarounds
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> While there is a work around, by simply changing the password, we have
> an unusual reoccurring issue with some user/realm/password
> combinations.  It’s a problem
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> setting the same password to many repos.
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> The issue shows up under both CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5, but not for the
> same user/realm/password. 
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> From and SVN perspective:
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> How do I get svn/svnserve to log the hashed response so I can compare
> it outside of SASL and MYSQL.  
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> I suspect our method to generate the hashed CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5
> that we store in mysql has a bug, what is a good place to locate
> source for this program.
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Svnserve does not use a MySQL database for storing passwords or password
hashes. So you either have a customized svnserve or a customized SASL
library. You'll have to find out where those customizations came from.
There is no such functionality in the Subversion code base.

-- Brane
Received on 2018-04-14 12:52:01 CEST

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