Re: svnserve sasl authentication with mysql user table

[Daniel Desrosiers <de...@vdl2.ca>]

Hello,

has anyone found a way to athenticate svn with sasl on mysql?  I too can't
get it to work.

Regards,

Daniel


Nils Preusker wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> has anyone managed to set up an svnserve instance on windows (SlikSVN),
> using sasl to authenticate users against a mysql database? The svn book
> mentions the following steps:
> - add the following two lines to the repositories svnserve.conf file:
> [sasl]
> use-sasl = true
> - create a main sasl configuration file named svn.conf
> - create a registry key named [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Carnegie
> Mellon\Project Cyrus\SASL Library] and create the two keys SearchPath
> (pointing to the sasl libraries, which in the case of a windows
> installation
> is the bin directory of the svnserve installation) and ConfFile (pointing
> to
> the previously mentioned svn.conf file)
> 
> My sasl configuration (svn.conf) looks like this:
> 
> pwcheck_method: auxprop
> auxprop_plugin: mysql
> sql_user: themysqladminusername
> sql_passwd: themysqladminpassword
> sql_hostnames: localhost:3306
> sql_database: thedatabase
> sql_select: SELECT password FROM user WHERE user_name = '%u'
> sql_verbose: true
> 
> I've also tried the above with mysql_user etc. but it didn't make a
> difference. It seems like I never even get through to the database, since
> when i try to commit to the test repository, nothing shows up in the logs
> of
> my mysql database.
> 
> Three things I'd like to verify and I currently can't figure out how to:
> 
> 1. How do I check if the registry keys are set correctly and the dll's and
> config file are found
> 2. How do I check whether my sasl configuration is correct
> 3. Are there any log files that could give me a hint what I'm doing wrong?
> Right now everything looks ok, I just can't log in when i want to commit
> to
> the repo.
> 
> I appreciate your help! Cheers, Nils
> 
> 

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