Hello Ted, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > Ian Kelling suggested I contact you. Toon Claes and I would like to have > a way for the Gitlab instance we have with the FSF (emba.gnu.org, the > Emacs build system) to authenticate users with their Savannah usernames, > to avoid duplication of effort and double registrations. Is that > possible? Through LDAP for instance?
Seems reasonable to me. The Savannah account database is held in a MySQL database. The user table contains the usual things that you expect as well as ssh keys and gpg keys. Passwords are used to access the web UI while ssh keys are used to access git's ssh repositories. Presently the FSF uses firewall rules to restrict access to listed host IP addresses only. I will add your GitLab emba.gnu.org to the access list. That would give that system the ability to query the database. You will probably need to do some exploration but I think it should be fairly easy to plumb an auth system into using it. I have done that before with other Rails sites and could possibly help. One technical problem that may get in the way is that Savannah is running on Trisquel Belenos meaning MySQL 5.5.61 is in use there. I would imagine that your GitLab is by default using a newer version of MariaDB. What is your client and version there? That may or may not cause some minor communication issues between them, depending upon the specific versions, due to changes in default option settings. May take some tinkering but should not be insurmountable. I'll send you the mysql access information by a different method. Bob
