Re: Milestone 2: authentication and authorization

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> What if I want to restrict write access to a particular branch (say,
> if I only want to allow the release engineering group to write to a
> release branch)?

Then you recursively add ACLs to each node in the branch; remember
that a branch appears to be just another subdir in the filesystem.

> What if I want to restrict read access to old versions of some files
> due to licensing issues which have since been corrected?

Oooh, that's an interesting use case.

Maybe we need ACL properties that are both versioned *and*
unversioned. Hm.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:17 2006