authz documentation?

[Claudio Ochoa <cl...@fi.upm.es>]

Hi, I would like to know if anybody can provide me with a link to authz 
documentation, or to quickly explain me how to use it to solve my 
problem (described below).

I just upgraded to svn 1.2.3, which according to the release notes, 
fixes the issue of mod_authz_svn being overly restrictive.

Basically, what I want to do is to set svnserve to manage the following 
set of users and paths:

1- users having systems accounts will have write only access to the 
whole rep.
2- users with non-system accounts (well-known guests) can have read-only 
access to some particular paths of the rep, determined on a user basis.
3- anonymous users have no access to the rep.

Can I do that with authz? how do I specify user names and the access 
mode/paths they are allowed to access?

Thanks in advance!
   Claudio

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Re: authz documentation?

[Claudio Ochoa <co...@clip.dia.fi.upm.es>]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Well, first of all, authz works only with Apache right now. In Subversion 
> 1.3, it should work with svnserve too, but it doesn't now.

Oops, I did a similar question some time ago, and I was told that a 
possible solution would be to use pre-commit hooks to filter authorized 
users, or to wait for the authz module to come out. I have been waiting 
for it since then, but it seems I'll have to wait until 1.3, right? :)


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Re: authz documentation?

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Oct 24, 2005, at 13:56, Claudio Ochoa wrote:

> Hi, I would like to know if anybody can provide me with a link to  
> authz documentation, or to quickly explain me how to use it to  
> solve my problem (described below).
>
> I just upgraded to svn 1.2.3, which according to the release notes,  
> fixes the issue of mod_authz_svn being overly restrictive.
>
> Basically, what I want to do is to set svnserve to manage the  
> following set of users and paths:
>
> 1- users having systems accounts will have write only access to the  
> whole rep.
> 2- users with non-system accounts (well-known guests) can have read- 
> only access to some particular paths of the rep, determined on a  
> user basis.
> 3- anonymous users have no access to the rep.
>
> Can I do that with authz? how do I specify user names and the  
> access mode/paths they are allowed to access?
>

Well, first of all, authz works only with Apache right now. In  
Subversion 1.3, it should work with svnserve too, but it doesn't now.

And then, I'm not sure if your proposal can be done with Subversion's  
authentication but I'll let someone else who has used authz respond  
to that.


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