George,
There's very little chance I'll do it.
The number of these accounts that need set up in the near term is low
enough that it's working well enough to just set up accounts on
request. If it gets to be a problem, there are ways to provide for
password change via the web and someone might need to look into them.
I'm not sure managing accounts' own passwords via passwd is a direction
good to go in when a desired benefit of using SVN is ability to scale
back the number of shell accounts to www.ja-sig.org that are required.
Shell access and SSH tunneling is no longer required for commits under
JA-SIG SVN. Using passwd for password change re-introduces the shell
account requirement.
In any case, there's little chance that I'll be the one to implement
better account self-management here. I've stepped up -- alongside Eric
and I assume others would do the work as well if needed -- to create and
update a few accounts as needed to address an overlooked issue in the
move from CVS to SVN so that development is not severely interrupted.
I'll forward this note along to the JA-SIG infrastructure team to see if
someone can do something about account self-management for the longer term.
Jason mentioned the potential of using something like Atlassian Crowd to
manage accounts over the web. Apparently account self-creation isn't
yet a feature but is on the short list for implementation. Presumably
Crowd could be configured to provision SVN authentication and
authorization files, or SVN configured to consult it.
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
any chance you could use mod_auth_external
(http://www.unixpapa.com/mod_auth_external/) and use
/etc/passwd for authentication so that
we can manage our own passwords through passwd?
Thanks
George
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