Kerberos for Subversion

[Ken Raeburn]

On Feb 4, 2010, at 16:27, Girish Mandhania wrote:
> Hello,
> I am working for a university and have Kerberos installed on our server.I
> wish to use Kerberos authentication of Subversion(change management
> application) on Linux.
> Could you please help me with the clear list of steps to be followed, as I
> am not able to find relevant information on the web.
> Let me know if any more details are required..

I think the usual approach has two relatively simple parts, which can be deployed and tested separately:

 1) Use svn+ssh (subversion over ssh) for repository access.

 2) Use a Kerberos/GSSAPI-enabled ssh, which is probably available in whatever packaging system you have available for your distribution.

If your developers don't currently have accounts on the subversion server, you can set up accounts that only allow one command, "svnserve", to be run.

Ken