A couple more subversion notes

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote:

> 1.4 should have svn and SSL support, in a way that will allow us to not
> have to pay the ssl handshake peanlty except during things requiring
> auth.  When this comes along, we will move to it, which will probably
> require some sort of underlying authentication change (I doubt we want
> to give everyone real passwords in the passwd file). Luckily there is
> already support for external password databases in svnserve.

If using SSL, I think SSL client certificates would be the best way to 
authenticate.

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