Apache::Authn::Redmine

Redmine - a mod_perl module to authenticate webdav subversion users against redmine database

SYNOPSIS

This module allow anonymous users to browse public project and registred users to browse and commit their project. Authentication is done against the redmine database or the LDAP configured in redmine.

This method is far simpler than the one with pam_* and works with all database without an hassle but you need to have apache/mod_perl on the svn server.

INSTALLATION

For this to automagically work, you need to have a recent reposman.rb (after r860) and if you already use reposman, read the last section to migrate.

Sorry ruby users but you need some perl modules, at least mod_perl2, DBI and DBD::mysql (or the DBD driver for you database as it should work on allmost all databases).

On debian/ubuntu you must do :

aptitude install libapache-dbi-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libdbd-mysql-perl

If your Redmine users use LDAP authentication, you will also need Authen::Simple::LDAP (and IO::Socket::SSL if LDAPS is used):

aptitude install libauthen-simple-ldap-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl

CONFIGURATION

## This module has to be in your perl path
## eg:  /usr/lib/perl5/Apache/Authn/Redmine.pm
PerlLoadModule Apache::Authn::Redmine
<Location /svn>
        DAV svn
        SVNParentPath "/var/svn"

        AuthType Basic
        AuthName redmine
        Require valid-user

        PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authen_handler
        PerlAuthzHandler Apache::Authn::Redmine::authz_handler

        ## for mysql
        RedmineDSN "DBI:mysql:database=databasename;host=my.db.server"
        ## for postgres
        # RedmineDSN "DBI:Pg:dbname=databasename;host=my.db.server"

        RedmineDbUser "redmine"
        RedmineDbPass "password"

        ## Authorization where clause (fulltext search would be slow and database dependant).
        ## Default: none
        # RedmineDbWhereClause "and members.role_id IN (1,2)"

        ## SCM transport protocol, used to detecte write requests
        ## Valid values: dav-svn, git-smart-http
        ## Default: dav-svn
        # RedmineSCMProtocol dav-svn

        ## Credentials cache size
        ## Default: 0 (disabled)
        # RedmineCacheCredsMax 50

        ## Credentials cache expiration delay in seconds
        ## Set to 0 to disable expiration.
        ## Default: 5 minutes (300)
        # RedmineCacheCredsMaxAge 60

        ## Check authorizations against a specific project.
        ## Default: none (extract project from location)
        # RedmineProject myproject

        ## Permissions to check for "read" access.
        ## You can add several permissions, user is granted access if *at least* one them exists.
        ## Default: :browse_repository
        # RedmineReadPermissions :browse_repository

        ## Permissions to check for "write" access.
        ## You can add several permissions, user is granted access if *at least* one them exists.
        ## Default: :commit_access
        # RedmineWritePermissions :commit_access

        ## Deny anonymous access.
        ## Affects both authentication and authorization
        ## Default: Off
        # RedmineDenyAnonymous On

        ## Deny non-member access to projects.
        ## Default: Off
        # RedmineDenyNonMember On

        ## Administrators have super-powers
        ## Default: On
        # RedmineSuperAdmin Off

</Location>

To be able to browse repository inside redmine, you must add something like that :

<Location /svn-private>
        DAV svn
        SVNParentPath "/var/svn"
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        # only allow reading orders
        <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
                Allow from redmine.server.ip
        </Limit>
</Location>

and you will have to use this reposman.rb command line to create repository :

reposman.rb --redmine my.redmine.server --svn-dir /var/svn --owner www-data -u http://svn.server/svn-private/

MIGRATION FROM OLDER RELEASES

If you use an older reposman.rb (r860 or before), you need to change rights on repositories to allow the apache user to read and write them :

sudo chown -R www-data /var/svn/*
sudo chmod -R u+w /var/svn/*

And you need to upgrade at least reposman.rb (after r860).