-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 1:36 AM To: Катаргин Алексей Cc: dev@subversion.apache.org; n...@chelcom.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH] sasl service name for svnserve
>On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 03:22:55PM +0500, Катаргин Алексей wrote: >> Hello, guys! >> >> I wrote a patch for svnserve. It allows you to specify sasl service >> >> name for each repository using the directive "sasl-service-name" >> >> in section [sasl] in svnserve.conf for the repository. This is necessary >> >> to provide access rights to each repository using the chain sasl-pam. >> >> If this option is not specified, it will be the default sasl_service_name ie >> "svn". > >The patch looks technically correct, but I don't understand why it is >needed. Can you explain why it is needed? > >It sounds to me as if you'd like to forward authentication requests >from SASL to PAM. Why can't you achieve this by configuring SASL >appropriately, without changing svn? > > (Note: I don't know much about SASL). > >Thanks, >Stefan It's used to set access rights per each repository via chain sasl->pam
