Fw: REMINDER : Upcoming change to SVN authentication

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi commiters,

For those who may have not noticed this message. Note: you can keep the same password on LDAP

Thanks to Ashish for the suggestion of forwarding

Jacques

From: "Tony Stevenson" <[hidden email]>

> On 18/02/2010 19:02, Tony Stevenson wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> On March 19th we will be changing the source of authentication for all
>> SVN accounts.
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> REMINDER ::  We still intend to make this change. If you do not know if
> this affects you or not you should read the original email below.
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>> For most Committers, we suggest you update your paswords at:
>> <https://svn.apache.org/change-password>
>>
>> This will then sync your passwords, and you will be able to continue
>> after the cut-over without loss of service.
>>
>> If you already know your LDAP password, which is also used for logins
>> to people.apache.org, you do not have to do this.
>>
>> After the cutover date, your old Subversion HTTP Authentication
>> password will stop working.
>>
>> The technical details:
>>
>> At the moment all committers have a distinct SVN account. This is
>> essentially an entry in a htpasswd file. As you should all know by now
>> we have been working on migrating to LDAP, we have now completed phase 1
>> of this; we have imported shell/Posix users and groups.
>>
>> What we want to do next is remove this local SVN account, and use LDAP
>> as the authentication provider. This is a simple change, but has some
>> repercussions that may effect a large number of you.
>>
>> After we switch over, the password for SVN will be your current LDAP
>> one. We expect that many of you dont remember your LDAP password, and so
>> what we want you to do is go and reset your LDAP password now, to avoid
>> being unable to commit to SVN.
>>
>> Also, shortly after the LDAP groups were imported Nexus
>> (repository.apache.org) switched to using LDAP for it's authentication
>> source. If you use this and discover you have been unable to login since
>> the cut-over you should use the steps above to resolve your login issues.
>>
>>
>>
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> Cheers,
> Tony
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