Re: Subversion in the classroom

Greg Wilson <Greg.Wilson@baltimore.com> writes:

> So, would SVN help us here? Or does it also rely on the
> underlying file system for access control, in which case
> we're back to where we are now...

If you use apache and *only* apache to access repositories, you can
circumvent all unix permissions issues:

Use apache as your svn server for all your repositories. From a unix
permissions point-of-view, the apache process "owns" all the files in
every repository.

Then create apache accounts for each student. (No need for unix
acounts.)

Then use mod_authz_svn access files to define groups of students, and
exactly which repositories they are allowed to access.

Voila, exactly what you want.

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Received on Thu Jul 31 20:30:28 2003