Configure OpenLDAP inside Unbuntu 10.04 server for svn user and group administration

Question

After configuring apache2 and svn inside ubuntu 10.04 serve I'm pretending to install OpenLDAP to use LDAP protocol to configure and administrate users and groups with the svn repositories.

However it seems that OpenLDAP recently went through some modifications and the Ubuntu offical documentation about OpenLDAP is out of date.

I found some foruns and blogs giving methods to work with OpenLDAP but none of then uses the same algorithm for configuration so I'm not sure what is and what isn't appropriated to implement. Hopping to see some replies with reliable info about this.

Thanks for the attention.

Answer 1

Not as yet. You can configure SVN to use LDAP auth via the cyrus sasl mechanism. Unfortunately, there's a problem with this and it won't work (for svnserve servers). There's a few bits on the web, but the devs have fixed the problem with sasl which will be released with SVN 1.7, IIRC.

For running Apache-based SVN, its easy. Add a few Auth* entries for mod_auth_ldap and you're done.