On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 07:36, Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2011 5:02 AM, "Andy Canfield" <andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi> wrote: >> >> The most obvious authorization scheme is that of the host server; if there >> is a user named "andy" on that server with a password "jackel" then I would >> like to simply be able to talk to the subversion server as user named "andy" >> password "jackel". This is how ssh and sftp work. But apparently subversion >> can't handle that. True? > > svn+ssh and Apache both can do it. One of the newer auth mechanisms for > svnserve might too but I haven't looked at svnserve in a long time. >
Checking The Book, svnserve using SASL supports many authentication mechanisms, including LDAP. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svnserve.sasl.authn
