I'm using apache to authenticate svn against ldap.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:50, Johan Corveleyn < johan.corvel...@uz.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote: > [sending to users@subversion.apache.org, iso > us...@subversion.tigris.org(which is closed)] > > Hi Mark, > > I'm sorry, I have no experience getting SASL to work with pam. But I > remember having read some things about pam in the Cyrus SASL documentation > pages (included with the distribution I think). So I suppose it should work. > > Maybe someone else on the (correct) subversion users list can help you? > > You could also have a look at the cyrus-sasl mailing list and/or archive: > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/lists.html > > Regards, > Johan > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > Van: grim...@gmail.com [mailto:grim...@gmail.com] Namens Mark Keisler > > Verzonden: zondag 24 januari 2010 20:05 > > Aan: Johan Corveleyn > > CC: i...@pablorizzo.com; us...@subversion.tigris.org > > Onderwerp: Re: How to authenticate Subversion with SASL2 + LDAP > > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Johan Corveleyn > > <johan.corvel...@uz.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote: > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > > Van: rizzopa...@gmail.com [mailto:rizzopa...@gmail.com] Namens Pablo > > > Manuel Rizzo > > > Verzonden: donderdag 11 juni 2009 16:15 > > > Aan: us...@subversion.tigris.org > > > Onderwerp: Re: How to authenticate Subversion with SASL2 + LDAP > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:03, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:43:13AM -0300, Pablo Manuel Rizzo > > > wrote: > > > > Hey Andrey, first you say it's not possible, now you say > > > it's all there. > > > > Is something wrong with you? > > > > > > > > > I'd say he just didn't know that SASL auth was added to svnserve. > > > It's a new feature. > > > > > > > > > > Does anybody know how to use sasl to authenticate subversion > > > with ldap? > > > > > > > > > The book suggests that you read the SASL documentation to > > > find out how to configure a given authentication scheme. > > > Have you read this part of the svnbook? > > > > > > I quote http://svnbook.red- > > > > bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svn > > > serve.sasl > > > > > > Because SASL provides so many different kinds of authentication > > > mechanisms, it > > > would be foolish (and far beyond the scope of this book) to try > > > to describe > > > every possible server-side configuration. Instead, we recommend > > > that you read > > > the documentation supplied in the doc/ subdirectory of the SASL > > > source code. It > > > goes into great detail about every mechanism and how to > > > configure the server > > > appropriately for each. > > > > > > Have you tried that? > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, sasl documentation is quite poor, there are no quick tips or how > > > tos. I see many people in this list and many others and forums is > > > looking for a quick how-to too. If someone in this list was able to > > > make it work and is willing to share how, it would be very nice and > > > usefull to publish this information somewhere. > > > > > SASL documentation is indeed very poor, and certainly when you're trying > to > > focus on use of LDAP with svnserve. You have to learn all about the > different > > password exchange mechanisms (plain, md5-digest, cram-digest, ...) > figuring > > out all about saslauthd and other stuff, while all you want to know is: > where > > do I configure the LDAP server, bind dn and bind password and stuff like > that > > (like with Apache + LDAP). > > > > Short answer: it's not possible, unless you apply a specific patch and > build > > svn server from source. See e.g. http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008- > > 01/0719.shtml. I haven't tried it myself though (can't compile from > source). > > > > The reason why it's not possible, despite what the documentation of SVN > says? > > Read the "Known Issues" in > > http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/sasl.txt: > > ----- > > ... > > As a consequence, you won't be able to use the saslauthd daemon to > > authenticate users, because that method only works with plain text > passwords. > > ----- > > And it just so happens that LDAP authentication only works with saslauthd > > (and plain text passwords). > > > > This was one of my major frustrations when trying to get SVN up and > running > > for the first time. We wanted to go for svnserve to get the last drop of > > performance out of it (and seemingly simple to set up). I lost days and > days > > looking for a solution, why it wouldn't work despite following carefully > the > > SASL instructions, ... until I found that "known issue" in the sasl.txt > file. > > In the end we switched to Apache just for this (I have not regretted it, > but > > just the time I lost with that ... I would have liked to have known this > > beforehand). > > > > The SVN devs could do current and future SVN users, administrators, ... a > big > > service by clearly documenting this! Please put this in big bold letters > in > > the book: svnserve + SASL + LDAP is not supported. Don't let people work > on > > this assumption until they find the small print in that sasl.txt file. > Please > > don't act in the book like all the SASL mechanisms are supported, because > > they clearly are not. > > > > And if it ever would be supported: please provide a simple example in the > > book for getting this up and running. > > > > Kind regards, > > Johan > > > > Sorry to revive an old thread, but can you use SASL auth with pam backend > and > use pam_ldap? Personally, I alerady use pam_ldap for auth on my server > (which also helps support svn+ssh for those that don't use keys). > -- Pablo Manuel Rizzo ------------------------------- http://pablorizzo.com -------------------------------
