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Re: Apache/mod_authz_svn configuration for anonymous repository browsing

From: Seth Falcon <sfalcon_at_fhcrc.org>
Date: 2003-08-25 18:50:50 CEST

> > Alternative to waiting: export the repository twice (two location
> > blocks).
> > Once with mod_authz_svn set up, and once with:
> >
> > <LimitExcept OPTIONS GET PROPFIND REPORT>
> > Deny from All
> > </LimitExcept>
> >
> >
> > Sander

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 04:17:27PM -0400, Francois Beausoleil wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> That would not work though. I want some parts of it protected and others
> publicly available.
>

Note that the apache basic auth allows you to have fairly fine grained
access control by using multiple <LocationMatch> sections in which you
can define different Limit/LimitExcept blocks. I've used this to have
different subdirs in the repository write-able by different users but
readable by everyone.

For example, the following should allow anonymous read access to the
entire repository except for subdir 'privateDir'. Only members of group
svn_committers can make changes and only members of group topsecret can
do anything to privateDir:

<Location /svn/repos>
    DAV svn
    SVNPath /path/to/repos
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion repository"
    AuthUserFile /path/to/passwd
    AuthGroupFile /path/to/group
    <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require group svn_committers
    </LimitExcept>
</Location>
<LocationMatch "^/svn/repos/privateDir">
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion repository"
    AuthUserFile /path/to/passwd
    AuthGroupFile /path/to/group
    <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require group topsecret
    </LimitExcept>
    <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require group topsecret
    </Limit>
</LocationMatch>

Hope that helps. BTW, where should I look for info on mod_authz_svn?
What does it do that the vanilla apache auth stuff doesn't?

+ seth

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