SVN + SASL + ActiveDirectory: How to

Question

I'm trying to set up SVN to authenticate against an ActiveDirectory. I know this is possible if you set up SVN to be served using Apache, but doing so introduces too much overhead, and SVN runs too slow. From reading the SVN docs, it sounds like it should now be possible (since SASL was integrated into SVN in 1.5) to configure SVN to authenticate against ActiveDirectory without using Apache. Unfortunately the documentation from SVN and SASL is extremely generic, and lacks specifics to help get this working properly.

Has anyone gotten this working? It would be a huge help if you could provide some sample configuration files, or high-level steps to point myself (and likely others) in the right direction on this.

Answer 1

I think it's technically possible. See the link point 8.GSSAPI and microsoft technet article as well.

I've hands-on experience with SVN 1.6 + SASL as described here. It's works fine for us. So I think your biggest challenge is to "married" SASL and Active directory.

Answer 2

Run SVN on windows using VisualSVN Server