Comments on: LDAP Authentication for Subversion on Ubuntu Feisty

By: samba

samba — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:58:18 +0000

Does ldap config work without apache?
Can we configure the ldap authentication with svnserve.conf(individual projects)?

By: samba

samba — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:54:07 +0000

I have one(some) more doubt(s):
previously my svn server is accessible for the clients with the individual passwd settings defined in /svn/repo1/conf/svnserve.conf file. In this passwd-db is the global file which contains the manual entries of user name and passwds and authz is the authentication permissions of individual repositories.
Now i have set up LDAP with repository wise permissions with AuthzSVNAccessFile (actually ready to set up which was tested in my local machine). How can this effects the previous permissions? shall svn clients from users able to use new passwds which are avilable through my new LDAP config? Can i remove the Entries in the individual repositories of authz and make them in /var/svn/access.txt file?

By: samba

samba — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:42:22 +0000

Above is working fine after i added the above entries in access.txt file in the svn(/var/svn in my case) location and add this to my config file as
AuthzSVNAccessFile /var/svn/access.txt

By: samba

samba — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:01:33 +0000

how can i give use the ldap authentication repository wise.

I want to create a setup so that the user exists in the Ldap and the provided the permission for a specific repository only will view the repository data, otherwise it shouldn’t allow the user to view it. I tried with the below setup but it did not work for me. Any help on this?

ls /var/svn
myrepo newrep test testrepo
are my repositories

[/]
* = r

[newrep:/]
user1 = r
user2 = rw

[test:/]
user2 = r
user4 = rw

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By: Confluence: Subversion

Confluence: Subversion — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:34:49 +0000

Bare Metal Installation…

Table of contents 1/9/2008 15:06 Hi Dan, svndev is up and running. It’s got ubuntu 6.06 LTS running. I haven’t done much for configuration. Here’s what’s there: hostname: svndev.control4.com IP: 10.11.11…….

By: Kurt Wolf

Kurt Wolf — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:36:29 +0000

Scott, great tip! This URL will give you more information regarding these commands.

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/207

By: Scott Frazer

Scott Frazer — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:22:32 +0000

Just as an FYI:

Instead of creating the module links by hand, you can use a2enmod:

sudo a2enmod dav_svn

will automatically create the appropriate *.load and *.conf links into mods-enabled

a2ensite does the same thing with sites-available, and a2dismod and a2dissite will turn them off.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:45:02 +0000

The only problem I see with all of this is the ldap:// URL Doesn’t that mean that you are sending AD usernames and passwords over the network in plain text? And ldaps:// would be secure (assuming AD is configured properly)?