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Re: Authz database alternative?

From: <fingerco_at_ccs.neu.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:11:57 -0400

Hello, my intent is to make it easier to manage large amounts of users in my organization.

It has gotten to the point where we have an extremely large and hard-to-manage Authz file and would like a more scalable/automated solution.

On Sep 17, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:

> Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:34:33 +0200:
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 09:31:37AM +0100, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>> Cory J. Finger wrote on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 16:13:15 -0400:
>>>> Hello, I was wondering if there was any way that I would be able to
>>>> replace the AUTHZ file for subversion with a MySQL database through an
>>>> apache module or some other method. Is there any tried and true method
>>>> out there?
>>>
>>> What are you trying to achieve by doing that?
>>
>> This feature is frequently requested by large organistations.
>>
>> If there already is a centrally managed database (such as LDAP)
>> for managing access to user accounts and other resources,
>> managing access to paths in Subversion repositories with a
>> plain text file, i.e. outside of that database, can be cumbersome.
>
> That's one intepretation of the question. There are others (eg,
> representing project root fspaths as LDAP directory entries or SQL
> primary keys). I don't want to guess what the OP meant.
Received on 2012-09-17 13:12:56 CEST

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