SASL only requires the use of the SASL authentication database when you use non-plain text authentication, ie CRAM-MD5.
Any current Linux distribution providing SASL will provide saslauthd. saslauthd natively speaks (not limited to) LDAP, kerberos 4, kerberos 5, and PAM; in the past I have used it's LDAP support to authenticate users in Active Directory. Ben Scott wrote: > Other Google hits re-enforce this. It sounds like svnserve with > only SASL basically means you're keeping your own authentication > database for svnserve -- no external integration possible. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
