¿Is it possible to use Active Directory?

[sv...@crccoding.com]

Hi!
Is it possible to use Active Directory (Server 2008 R2) to manage users 
for a subversion 1.9.4?

Joseph

Re: ¿Is it possible to use Active Directory?

[Joseph Bruni <jb...@icloud.com>]

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> On Oct 6, 2016, at 3:23 PM, svn@crccoding.com wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> Is it possible to use Active Directory (Server 2008 R2) to manage users for a subversion 1.9.4?
> 
> Joseph
> 

I do. There are a couple options. You can use Apache as your front end server and configure it via its LDAP support. Or, what I do, is use svnserve with SASL to perform the LDAP authentication.  I preferred using svnserve because of the bag of hurt that is RedHat Linux which I was forced to use.

If you are on good terms with your AD admins, you can try to get SASL/GSSAPI (Kerberos) as the best option. If that doesn't work, and if you don't mind your passwords moving through your network in the clear, SASL/plain will also work.

If you need to support Macs on your network, the SVN libraries supplied by Apple are not built with SASL support, so fallback to svn+ssh. I had good luck with SVN supplied by home brew in this case.