On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Sebastian Kotthoff <sebastian.kotth...@rz.uni-mannheim.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a working LDAP-Server and some svn-repositories on an second server. > The svnserv uses the "passwd" file at the moment for user authendication. > Now I like to to use the LDAP instead. > Because the handbook says, svnserv could be used with sasl to access > a LDAP-server, I have set up a "saslauthd" on the svn-server. > The saslauthd asks the LDAP over SSL if the given user is in a svn-group. > > This is working fine so far, I can check this with: > # sudo /usr/sbin/testsaslauthd -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD > whitch returns either > 0: OK "Success." or 0: NO "authentication failed" > > Now I have set up a "/usr/lib/sasl2/svn.conf", but I'm not shure, > what to fill in. The lines from the svnhandbook are redirecting to a > "/etc/sasldb2", which I have. But I don't want to use a database-file, > the svnserv should request the localy running saslauthd. > > It is possible to do something like that, or are I comlpetely misunderstood > the svnserver sasl-support? > > (A further point is, that "svnserve --version" on ubuntu 8.04 does not return > something like "sasl", so it seems that I anyway need to compile it my own.) > > Thank you in advance very much!
The following recent thread from this mailinglist may help you: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-03/0515.shtml The discussion eventually resulted in a working setup of svnserve + SASL + LDAP. Cheers, -- Johan
