On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:35 PM, David Jencks wrote: > You should have received an email from Tony Stephenson yesterday on the > apache committers list explaining how you need to update your apache password > so you can continue to use apache's nexus and svn.
In case you aren't subscribed (all commiitters should be): On Feb 18, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Tony Stevenson wrote: > Folks, > > On March 19th we will be changing the source of authentication for all SVN > accounts. > > 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.
