[Mageia-sysadm] Usernames, uids, and groups

[nicolas vigier]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2010, Buchan Milne wrote:

> > We also need to decide what UID ranges we use for local accounts, and for
> > ldap accounts.
> > 
> > And groups. I think we could use the following groups :
> >  * posix : promotes the user as posixAccount+sshPublicKey (in ldap), and
> >    allows access to the svn and git using svn+ssh:// and git+ssh://
> 
> I think it would be better to try and provide VCS commit access without shell 
> access. This is easy enough for subversion with mod_dav_svn.

If we are using mod_dav_svn, do you know if we could use something like
an SSL certificate stored in ldap for authentication, to avoid typing
the ldap password for each request ?