[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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