[svnbook] r3910 committed - Finish issue #98 ("ch06: How to find whether your client/server does S...
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Revision: 3910
Author: cmpilato at gmail.com
Date: Tue Jul 12 13:48:36 2011
Log: Finish issue #98 ("ch06: How to find whether your client/server
does SASL").
* src/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml
Note that 'svn --version' will report the availability of Cyrus SASL.
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/source/detail?r=3910
Modified:
/trunk/src/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml
=======================================
--- /trunk/src/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml Fri Jul 8 12:26:33
2011
+++ /trunk/src/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml Tue Jul 12 13:48:36
2011
@@ -934,6 +934,7 @@
<sidebar>
<title>What Is SASL?</title>
+
<para>The Cyrus Simple Authentication and Security Layer is
open source software written by Carnegie Mellon University.
It adds generic authentication and encryption capabilities
@@ -944,10 +945,13 @@
you're building Subversion yourself, you'll need to have at
least version 2.1 of SASL installed on your system, and
you'll need to make sure that it's detected during
- Subversion's build process. If you're using a prebuilt
- Subversion binary package, you'll have to check with the
- package maintainer as to whether SASL support was compiled
- in. SASL comes with a number of pluggable modules that
+ Subversion's build process. The Subversion will report the
+ availability of Cyrus SASL when you run <userinput>svn
+ --version</userinput>; if you're using some other Subversion
+ client, you might need to check with the package maintainer
+ as to whether SASL support was compiled in.</para>
+
+ <para>SASL comes with a number of pluggable modules that
represent different authentication systems: Kerberos
(GSSAPI), NTLM, One-Time-Passwords (OTP), DIGEST-MD5, LDAP,
Secure-Remote-Password (SRP), and others. Certain
@@ -956,7 +960,9 @@
<para>You can download Cyrus SASL (both code and
documentation) from
- <ulink
url="http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html"/>.</para>
+ <ulink url="http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html"
+ />.</para>
+
</sidebar>
<para>Normally, when a subversion client connects to
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