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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by raichea <ra...@gmail.com> on 2013/04/29 15:28:30 UTC
svnserve: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free
I repeatedly get this message in my server log.
Googling has shown that I'm not alone, although not everyone reports the
message coming from svn. Other than that, it has shed little light on
what the problem might be apart from it being somehow related to SASL.
My SVN server is not using SASL at all (as far as I know) as the
relevant section in svnserve.conf is commented out.
I've searched the web and any likely mailing lists, FAQs, documents but
am not closer to eliminating the message. Can anyone put me out of my
misery?
Thanks.
Re: svnserve: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free
Posted by raichea <ra...@yahoo.com>.
On 29/04/2013 23:08, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>
> Instead of hoping, just uncomment it and set it to "false".
>
Tried that... no change, unfortunately. Thanks for the thought, though.
Steve.
Re: svnserve: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free
Posted by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>.
raichea wrote on Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 23:01:51 +0100:
> On 29/04/2013 21:55, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>
>> The fact it's commented out rather than not present implies svnserve was
>> built with SASL support; 'svnserve --version' will confirm that.
>>
>> Just a possibly-relevant fact...
>>
>> Daniel
>>
> Hmm, thanks... well, the output from that command includes:
>
> "Cyrus SASL authentication is available."
>
> So I think you're right. However, as the use-sasl entry in the conf file
> is commented out (along with all the other sasl stuff) I would hope it's
> not trying to use it....
>
Instead of hoping, just uncomment it and set it to "false". :-)
> Steve
Re: svnserve: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free
Posted by raichea <ra...@yahoo.com>.
On 30/04/2013 09:52, Philip Martin wrote:
>
> If built with SASL support then svnserve always initialises the SASL
> subsystem. This must be done if SASL is to be available and at this
> stage the server doesn't know which repositories will be accessed.
>
> It appears to be the SASL libraries that are producing the message when
> the SASL subsystem is shut down:
> http://git.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/tree/plugins/digestmd5.c
>
> I guess you are running svnserve in inetd mode. I don't know how you
> suppress the message.
>
I am using svnserve in inetd mode and, looking at the link you gave, I'm
sure you're right.
I guess there might be a way to change the logging level of the SASL
libraries... I'll have to go digging to find out. Thanks for the
pointer, anyway.
Steve.
Re: svnserve: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free
Posted by Philip Martin <ph...@wandisco.com>.
raichea <ra...@gmail.com> writes:
> "Cyrus SASL authentication is available."
>
> So I think you're right. However, as the use-sasl entry in the conf
> file is commented out (along with all the other sasl stuff) I would
> hope it's not trying to use it....
If built with SASL support then svnserve always initialises the SASL
subsystem. This must be done if SASL is to be available and at this
stage the server doesn't know which repositories will be accessed.
It appears to be the SASL libraries that are producing the message when
the SASL subsystem is shut down:
http://git.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/tree/plugins/digestmd5.c
I guess you are running svnserve in inetd mode. I don't know how you
suppress the message.
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Re: svnserve: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free
Posted by raichea <ra...@gmail.com>.
On 29/04/2013 21:55, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>
> The fact it's commented out rather than not present implies svnserve was
> built with SASL support; 'svnserve --version' will confirm that.
>
> Just a possibly-relevant fact...
>
> Daniel
>
Hmm, thanks... well, the output from that command includes:
"Cyrus SASL authentication is available."
So I think you're right. However, as the use-sasl entry in the conf file
is commented out (along with all the other sasl stuff) I would hope it's
not trying to use it....
Steve
Re: svnserve: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free
Posted by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>.
raichea wrote on Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 14:28:30 +0100:
> I repeatedly get this message in my server log.
>
> Googling has shown that I'm not alone, although not everyone reports the
> message coming from svn. Other than that, it has shed little light on
> what the problem might be apart from it being somehow related to SASL.
> My SVN server is not using SASL at all (as far as I know) as the
> relevant section in svnserve.conf is commented out.
>
The fact it's commented out rather than not present implies svnserve was
built with SASL support; 'svnserve --version' will confirm that.
Just a possibly-relevant fact...
Daniel
> I've searched the web and any likely mailing lists, FAQs, documents but
> am not closer to eliminating the message. Can anyone put me out of my
> misery?
>
> Thanks.