On 04/18/2013 07:48 AM, Bert Huijben wrote:
>> I'd be happy with a tool that takes a dirname and URL on argv and
>> a username\0password\0 on stdin and creates
>> ${dirname}/auth/svn.ssl.simple/$(md5 $(realm-of URL)) with the right
>> contents.
>>
>> But yeah, what you wrote works, too.
>
> I like the idea, but
>
> <Implementation question>
> How would you obtain the realm when URL allows anonymous access?
> </>
>
> This is certainly not trivial to implement in a generic way.We'd pretty much need to have the RA layer involved, because each RA implementation is required to define its own realmstring syntax. ra_serf uses "<REPOS_ROOT_URL:PORT> APACHE_REALM". ra_svn uses "<REPOS_ROOT_URL:PORT> REPOS_UUID" by default, but will replace REPOS_UUID with any realmstring defined in svnserve.conf >>> I have a suspicion that the idea could grow into a full-blown >>> credentials management tool ... >>> >> >> Right, with the recent "delete credentials" ability. >> >> Nice GSOC/OPW idea? > > +1 I'd planned to add this sort of thing as part of the master passphrase work anyway. -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Enterprise Cloud Development
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