Subversion svnserve "Could not obtain the list of SASL mechanisms"

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:12:00 -0400

I've decided to move our subversion repository to a new server. Put up a fresh install of CentOS 5.2 x32, updated and installed subversion on it. Decided to set it up using svnserve with sasl, as 1.5 supports that. Following the SVN Book, I set up my svnserve.conf file as follows


[general]
anon-access = none
auth-access = write
realm = isf
[sasl]
use-sasl = true
min-encryption = 128
max-encryption = 256

I had set up the /etc/sasl/svn.conf file as follows


pwcheck_method: auxprop
auxprop_plugin: sasldb
sasldb_path: /svn/sassl
mech_list: DIGEST-MD5

Unfortunately, I kept getting the "Could not obtain the list of SASL mechanisms" error in TortoiseSVN and other clients. Nobody seemed to be able to help, until I finally figured it out - the DIGEST-MD5 plugin wasn't installed for cyrus by default on CentOS 5.2. All I had to do was run the following command and everything started working.


yum install cyrus-sasl-md5

Ruslan Sivak - SVN

Subversion svnserve "Could not obtain the list of SASL mechanisms"