> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Cooke, Mark 
> <mark.co...@siemens.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>       > -----Original Message-----
>       > From: xumuku [mailto:xum...@gmail.com]
>       > Sent: 25 July 2012 16:49
>       > To: subversion_us...@googlegroups.com
>       > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org; xum...@gmail.com
>       > Subject: Re: Subversion authentication via SASL GSSAPI and
>       > likewise open
>       >
>       > My current  /usr/lib/sasl2/svn.conf is:
>       >
>       > pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>       > mech_list: GSSAPI
>       > saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
>       > log_level: 7
>       >
>       > But I get the error:
>       > Cannot negotiate authentication mechanism
>       >
>       > 1. Does *anyone* have Windows SVNServe authenticating to
>       > AD/Kerberos via SASL/GSSAPI?
>       > 
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10407077/does-anyone-have-
> windows-svnserve-authenticating-to-ad-kerberos-via-sasl-gssap>
>       > 2. Cannot negotiate authentication mechanism
>       > 
> <http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065
> &viewType=browseAll&dsMessageId=65725#messagefocus>
>       
>       No (sorry), we use https via apache and mod_ldap to 
> authenticate against AD.  I am interested to know why you 
> think that is not secure enough (perhaps you have *nix 
> clients storing plain text passwords?)
>       
>       ~ mark c
> 
> Because it works only with PLAIN auth:

Ah, ok, yes, I did say we use https.  The server is configured to redirect all 
http traffic to https (using mod_ssl) and authentication then happens in that 
encrypted environment (or am I being naïve here?)

> tcpdump -ni eth0 -A src host 192.168.1.2 and tcp dst port 3690
> 
> 
> 17:10:10.488834 IP 192.168.1.2.59751 > 192.168.1.1.3690: 
> Flags [P.], seq 145:184, ack 166, win 65115, length 39
> E..O.b@...."..@...@     .g.j....~...P..[....( PLAIN ( 
> 21:AHVzZXIAcGFzc3dvcmQ=
> 
> 
> http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/base64decode/ - 
> and you can see my sername and password
> 
> 
> We already have Apache via mod_svn and mod_ldap but it is very slow.

What is very slow?  I know we don't have many users and are on an internal 
network but I have no issue with our speeds...

~ mark c

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