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Re: Authentication/authorization issues

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-04-29 16:19:18 CEST

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Thank you,
-Karl

"Gino Marckx" <dev@xodiac.be> writes:
> Hi there,
>
> 1. I have a mixed authentication and anonymous access setup for my
> Subversion installation and wanted to do the following for the test
> repository (which everybody can use to fool around with and get acquainted
> with Subversion in our company).
> So it is obvious that everybody has got write access, so the following
> line is added to the [test:/] section of my subversion access policy file:
>
> * = rw
>
> Now, for obvious reasons, locking cannot be used. So I added the
> following line to the section for the developers to be able to test
> locking when they wanted to:
>
> @developers = rw
>
> Apparently this does not work. Apache always seems to take the anonymous
> account in this case, and I get the message:
>
> svn: Lock request failed: 401 Authorization Required
>
> Is there any way to do what I want to do? Because I don't want to specify
> all non-developer users in the subversion access policy file...
>
> 2. Another thing. I think it would be very useful to be able to refer to
> user groups when specifying other users. E.g. like in the following
> example:
>
> admins = admin1, admin2
> developers = @admins, developer1, developer2, ...
>
> 3. Currently it is not possible to automatically secure (write lock) all
> tags. If it would be possible to specify something like:
>
> [test:/tags/*]
> * = r
>
> Then this would automatically be the case.
>
> Regards,
> Gino.
>
>
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