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Re: Auto-create repository?

From: Noel Yap <yap_noel_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2002-10-17 00:03:09 CEST

--- Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Noel Yap wrote:
>
> > How will you control who is allowed to create
> > repositories?
> >
> > If you want to allow everyone to be able to create
> > repositories, you might be able to create a user
> > account for this sole purpose.
>
> Anybody who had "write" access to the "root"
> location for a given
> repository directory. So if the "/xcorp-svn" URI
> location corresponds to
> "/var/lib/xcorp-svn" on the filesystem, you could (I
> think) configure
> Apache to only allow certain people to perform DAV
> "write"-type methods
> for that location.
>
> Then people who can't make a repository but can
> write to existing ones are
> given "write" access to "/xcorp-svn/foo".

I think the original poster had wanted to allow people
to be able remotely to create repositories, not just
different directories within one repository.

Noel

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