Re: Awful first cut of ra_svn password authentication

Sir Woody Hackswell <woody@hackswell.com> writes:

> This would also be a great paradigm if in the server config file we were to
> allow/disallow commands to particular users. :) No need to "authenticate"
> if the particular action is open. But use the cached credentials if the
> config file says you need them. That way you could have anonymous checkout,
> but controlled checkin, etc.

Sure... there's no point in implementing an authn system if there's no
authz system to make use of it! ghudson, rooneg and I are talking in
IRC right now about this stuff, and ghudson definitely has plans to
write an svnserve authz system... even a rudimentary "read"/"write"
system would be useful.

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Received on Fri Oct 17 03:29:09 2003