Using more than one SASLDB

[Koaps]

Thanks Dan,

That helps gets me in the right direction.

Thanks again

-c

--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:

> From: Dan White <dwhite at olp.net>
> Subject: Re: Using more than one SASLDB
> To: "Koaps" <koaps at yahoo.com>
> Cc: cyrus-sasl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 12:01 PM
> On 22/03/10 18:33 -0700, Koaps
> wrote:
> >I've been trying to figure out how to use a different
> sasldb2 for
> >different instances of svn.
> >
> >I have a svn server that listenings on two different
> ports for two
> >different repo areas(one is for testing some code for
> managing SVN)
> >
> >I wanted have the testing site use a different sasldb
> since there is the
> >possibility that it could destroy or override the
> master sasldb, which
> >would be very bad.
> >
> >I have different users the xinetd runs svnserve as, svn
> and svn-dev, and I
> >tried making svn.conf and svn-dev.conf files in
> /etc/sasl2 but it doesn't
> >seem to work and sasl just keeps looking at the master
> db.
> >
> >Is there a way to get this to work?
> >
> >I tried to see if it was something SVN related but it
> seems to be sasl.
> >I'm not how to get it to read the other config file so
> it looks at the dev
> >sasldb.
> 
> The filename of the configuration file is set by the
> sasl_server_init call,
> which is set in subversion by:
> 
> include/private/ra_svn_sasl.h:#define SVN_RA_SVN_SASL_NAME
> "svn"
> 
> The location can be changed in certain circumstances via
> the SASL_CONF_PATH
> environment variable. See the sasl_getconfpath_t(3) man
> page, which states:
> 
> 
> sasl_getconfpath_t is used if the application wishes to use
> a different
> location for the SASL configuration files. If this callback
> is not used
> SASL will either use the location in the environment
> variable
> SASL_CONF_PATH (provided we are not SUID or SGID) or
> /etc/sasl2 by default.
> 
> 
> I don't see sasl_getconfpath_t anywhere in the subversion
> code (1.6.9), so
> you should be able to define a directory for your svn-dev
> to place a unique
> svn.conf in, assuming you can set an environment variable
> in xinetd.
> 
> -- 
> Dan White
>