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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by He Meng <me...@gmail.com> on 2008/09/18 15:30:34 UTC

Re: About browse permission

Thanks a lot!

Then, do you have any tips on how to distinguish between "Visibility" and
"readability", since that's a common requirement. Or, is there any best
practice?

Best Regards!

Paul

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:22 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>wrote:

>  He Meng wrote:
> > When I use subversion as our scm system, there is a problem:
> >
> > We can only set the guys read or write permission at some resources or
> > not, but can we just let them browse the catalog? That means just like
> > the list permission of file system.
> >
> > Thank you & Best Regards!
>
> He Meng,
>
> This list (security@) is *not* for asking/answering questions about
> Subversion's authorization features.  It's for reporting known security
> vulnerabilities in the Subversion source code itself.  Please use
> users@subversion.tigris.org for questions like yours.
>
> (I'll save you a trip to users@ this time, though -- Subversion does not
> distinguish between "able to see a file in a directory listing" and "able
> to
> read that file's contents".  "Visibility" and "readability" are one and the
> same in Subversion's authorization model.)
>
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> C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
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