RE: svnserve authz: requires root read access

Paul,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Egan [mailto:paulegan@mail.com]
>
> My intention was to give a particular user read/write access
> to a single directory only, e.g.:
>
> [/]
> foo = rw
> [/open]
> bar = rw
>
> User bar can now read only from /open and no other directory.
> Unfortunately any write to /open returns with an "Access denied".
> With root read access enabled for bar, writes now succeed, e.g.:
...
>
> Is this intended or a bug? I presume a call to open_root()
> is the culprit. Whether bug or feature, the work-around of
> enabling root read access and then disabling access to each
> other top- level, is quite a pain.
>

I had a short discussion with one of the developers and he confirmed that
this behaviour was intended for now, based on an issue with the current
design ( the call to open_root(), as you already noticed ).

The behaviour is not compatible with the same functionality in mod_authz_svn
though. In my opinion this is an issue to be solved. I'll look more deeply
into this.

regards,

Lieven.

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