Re: REMINDER : Upcoming change to SVN authentication

[Kevan Miller <ke...@gmail.com>]

Sending this to any Geronimo committers having problems committing to svn.

SVN authentication is now using LDAP.  See the instructions below, about changing your LDAP password, if you do not know your LDAP password.

This information was sent to committers@a.o. If you are an ASF Committer, you should be subscribed to the committers mailing list -- it provides you with useful information. 

--kevan


On Mar 18, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Tony Stevenson wrote:

> On 18/02/2010 19:02, Tony Stevenson wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> On March 19th we will be changing the source of authentication for all
>> SVN accounts.
>> 
> 
> REMINDER ::  We still intend to make this change. If you do not know if this affects you or not you should read the original email below.
> 
> 
>> For most Committers, we suggest you update your paswords at:
>> <https://svn.apache.org/change-password>
>> 
>> This will then sync your passwords, and you will be able to continue
>> after the cut-over without loss of service.
>> 
>> If you already know your LDAP password, which is also used for logins
>> to people.apache.org, you do not have to do this.
>> 
>> After the cutover date, your old Subversion HTTP Authentication
>> password will stop working.
>> 
>> The technical details:
>> 
>> At the moment all committers have a distinct SVN account. This is
>> essentially an entry in a htpasswd file. As you should all know by now
>> we have been working on migrating to LDAP, we have now completed phase 1
>> of this; we have imported shell/Posix users and groups.
>> 
>> What we want to do next is remove this local SVN account, and use LDAP
>> as the authentication provider. This is a simple change, but has some
>> repercussions that may effect a large number of you.
>> 
>> After we switch over, the password for SVN will be your current LDAP
>> one. We expect that many of you dont remember your LDAP password, and so
>> what we want you to do is go and reset your LDAP password now, to avoid
>> being unable to commit to SVN.
>> 
>> Also, shortly after the LDAP groups were imported Nexus
>> (repository.apache.org) switched to using LDAP for it's authentication
>> source. If you use this and discover you have been unable to login since
>> the cut-over you should use the steps above to resolve your login issues.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Cheers,
> Tony
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