svnserve/authz mod questions..

[bruce <be...@earthlink.net>]

hi...

i'm looking at being able to do a project using subversion. the project
would have 100s of folders, with different files in the folders. i'd like to
be able to automatically manage the ability of users to be able to access
the information within the folders/files.

however, the tools that i've seen so far, (svnmgr/insurrection) don't have
the ability to manage user access at the folder/file level.

so... my question, should i look into modifying these tools to provide
folder/file level user access.. which could be a pain!!! or do i take the
easy way, and essentially allow each folder to become its' own repository,
which means i have 100s of little small repositories, but i could place them
all under the same dir...

in theory, i would/should/could potentially use the same svnserve/authz file
for the user access to the repositories as well...

thoughts/comments/etc...

thanks

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Re: svnserve/authz mod questions..

[Mark <ma...@mitsein.net>]

Do you have any solution in place now?  Like a unix group for each
folder of files?  You can easily set up a cron to rebuild svn authz
info based on unix groups or whatever else you may have to keep track
of who has access to what.

On 10/5/06, bruce <be...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> hey mark..
>
> my initial thought is to have a layout with folder/files as follows:
>  college
>    sports.py
>    academic.py
>
> each college folder is for a give college
>  each sports.py parses a section of the college site
>  each academic.py parses a section of the college site
>
> the initial concern is that i don't want a user to be able to access a file
> he doesn't have access to. while i can use authz/svnserve to manage user
> access at the folder/file level, i haven't found any good toool that's setup
> to do this for a repository that might have lots of folder/file
> combinations...
>
> however, if instead of one large svn repository, with lots of folders, if i
> changed and had lots of repositories, each of which only had the files, this
> is apparently easily managed in an automated manner within a website, using
> something like insurrection.
>
> so my question/concern is really how to automatically assign/modify user
> access to folders/files within a repository.
>
> thoughts/comments/etc...
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grimm26@gmail.com [mailto:grimm26@gmail.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:09 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: svnserve/authz mod questions..
>
>
> Just to clarify, you want to be able to give different access rights
> to different files within the same directory?  Sounds overly complex
> to me.  If you can manage to get files with the same authz
> requirements in folders together, then you can easily manage with the
> standard svn authz with svnserve or dav access.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what kind of data is in your repository?
>
> On 10/4/06, bruce <be...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > hi...
> >
> > i'm looking at being able to do a project using subversion. the project
> > would have 100s of folders, with different files in the folders. i'd like
> to
> > be able to automatically manage the ability of users to be able to access
> > the information within the folders/files.
> >
> > however, the tools that i've seen so far, (svnmgr/insurrection) don't have
> > the ability to manage user access at the folder/file level.
> >
> > so... my question, should i look into modifying these tools to provide
> > folder/file level user access.. which could be a pain!!! or do i take the
> > easy way, and essentially allow each folder to become its' own repository,
> > which means i have 100s of little small repositories, but i could place
> them
> > all under the same dir...
> >
> > in theory, i would/should/could potentially use the same svnserve/authz
> file
> > for the user access to the repositories as well...
> >
> > thoughts/comments/etc...
> >
> > thanks
> >
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> >
>
>
> --
> Mark
> "Blessed is he who finds happiness in his own foolishness, for he will
> always be happy."
>
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RE: svnserve/authz mod questions..

[bruce <be...@earthlink.net>]

hey mark..

my initial thought is to have a layout with folder/files as follows:
 college
   sports.py
   academic.py

each college folder is for a give college
 each sports.py parses a section of the college site
 each academic.py parses a section of the college site

the initial concern is that i don't want a user to be able to access a file
he doesn't have access to. while i can use authz/svnserve to manage user
access at the folder/file level, i haven't found any good toool that's setup
to do this for a repository that might have lots of folder/file
combinations...

however, if instead of one large svn repository, with lots of folders, if i
changed and had lots of repositories, each of which only had the files, this
is apparently easily managed in an automated manner within a website, using
something like insurrection.

so my question/concern is really how to automatically assign/modify user
access to folders/files within a repository.

thoughts/comments/etc...

thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: grimm26@gmail.com [mailto:grimm26@gmail.com]On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:09 PM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: svnserve/authz mod questions..


Just to clarify, you want to be able to give different access rights
to different files within the same directory?  Sounds overly complex
to me.  If you can manage to get files with the same authz
requirements in folders together, then you can easily manage with the
standard svn authz with svnserve or dav access.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of data is in your repository?

On 10/4/06, bruce <be...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> hi...
>
> i'm looking at being able to do a project using subversion. the project
> would have 100s of folders, with different files in the folders. i'd like
to
> be able to automatically manage the ability of users to be able to access
> the information within the folders/files.
>
> however, the tools that i've seen so far, (svnmgr/insurrection) don't have
> the ability to manage user access at the folder/file level.
>
> so... my question, should i look into modifying these tools to provide
> folder/file level user access.. which could be a pain!!! or do i take the
> easy way, and essentially allow each folder to become its' own repository,
> which means i have 100s of little small repositories, but i could place
them
> all under the same dir...
>
> in theory, i would/should/could potentially use the same svnserve/authz
file
> for the user access to the repositories as well...
>
> thoughts/comments/etc...
>
> thanks
>
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>


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always be happy."

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Re: svnserve/authz mod questions..

[Mark <ma...@mitsein.net>]

Just to clarify, you want to be able to give different access rights
to different files within the same directory?  Sounds overly complex
to me.  If you can manage to get files with the same authz
requirements in folders together, then you can easily manage with the
standard svn authz with svnserve or dav access.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of data is in your repository?

On 10/4/06, bruce <be...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> hi...
>
> i'm looking at being able to do a project using subversion. the project
> would have 100s of folders, with different files in the folders. i'd like to
> be able to automatically manage the ability of users to be able to access
> the information within the folders/files.
>
> however, the tools that i've seen so far, (svnmgr/insurrection) don't have
> the ability to manage user access at the folder/file level.
>
> so... my question, should i look into modifying these tools to provide
> folder/file level user access.. which could be a pain!!! or do i take the
> easy way, and essentially allow each folder to become its' own repository,
> which means i have 100s of little small repositories, but i could place them
> all under the same dir...
>
> in theory, i would/should/could potentially use the same svnserve/authz file
> for the user access to the repositories as well...
>
> thoughts/comments/etc...
>
> thanks
>
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>


-- 
Mark
"Blessed is he who finds happiness in his own foolishness, for he will
always be happy."

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