Re: Limiting access to a particular repository subdirectory

On 10/12/09 5:47 PM, "Srilakshmanan, Lakshman"
<lakshman.srilakshmanan_at_police.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi Craig,
>
> Have you considered Path-Based Authorization
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html
>
> Thanks
> Lakshman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Pendleton [mailto:craig.pendleton_at_healthlanguage.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 October 2009 8:58 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Limiting access to a particular repository subdirectory
>
> We are currently running Subversion 1.4 through Apache 2.2, authenticating
> our users via LDAP and a ³Require valid-user² parameter. This has been
> working fine for us. We are bringing in a third party who will only be
> working several levels deep in the repository and would like to restrict
> their access to these subdirectories only. We would like to use LDAP
> groups to accomplish this. Basically what we are looking for is the
> following:
>
> /repository/foo (read, write by A, B LDAP groups; no read or write for C
> group )
> /repository/foo/bar (read, write by A, B, C LDAP groups)
>
> I¹ve tried multiple <Location> directives (with different ³Require
> ldap-filter² parameters) into different parts of the same repository, with no
> success. ³Require ldap-group² will not work for us as it seems to only accept
> one group as argument.
>
> Is this possible? If so, can someone point me in the right direction?
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
> Craig
>

Hi Lakshman,

Thank you for the suggestion and the quick reply. Path-based authorization
would be ideal, but my understanding is that this requires a flat file
containing path, user and/or group details and cannot query group membership
from LDAP. Can path-based authorization leverage LDAP groups? I didn¹t
find any documentation indicating that it can, so I¹m looking for
alternatives.

Suggestions greatly appreciated.

Craig

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