Hello, my intent is to make it easier to manage large amounts of users in my organization.
It has gotten to the point where we have an extremely large and hard-to-manage Authz file and would like a more scalable/automated solution.
On Sep 17, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:34:33 +0200:
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 09:31:37AM +0100, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>> Cory J. Finger wrote on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 16:13:15 -0400:
>>>> Hello, I was wondering if there was any way that I would be able to
>>>> replace the AUTHZ file for subversion with a MySQL database through an
>>>> apache module or some other method. Is there any tried and true method
>>>> out there?
>>>
>>> What are you trying to achieve by doing that?
>>
>> This feature is frequently requested by large organistations.
>>
>> If there already is a centrally managed database (such as LDAP)
>> for managing access to user accounts and other resources,
>> managing access to paths in Subversion repositories with a
>> plain text file, i.e. outside of that database, can be cumbersome.
>
> That's one intepretation of the question. There are others (eg,
> representing project root fspaths as LDAP directory entries or SQL
> primary keys). I don't want to guess what the OP meant.
Received on 2012-09-17 13:12:56 CEST