Philippe Andersson wrote on Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:52:10 +0200: > Hello list, > > We're starting to create slave Subversion repos for installation on > remote sites. All of them will svnsync against a single central master > at headquarters. > > Now the question: we would like all users on the remote sites to > authenticate against the master (to avoid having replicating that info > as well to the slave servers). The authentication on the master is > handled through Apache. > > Is it possible to configure the slave servers to proxy the > authentication requests against the master ?
It's certainly possible (e.g., if you use LDAP authentication you could configure an LDAPAuthURL that points to HQ), but whoever has access to the slave's httpd.conf will be able to disable/change those settings.
