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Re: how do i configure access perms to certain dirs, across all branches,tags,trunk etc

From: Andreas Kostyrka <andreas_at_kostyrka.org>
Date: 2005-07-13 14:36:36 CEST

Well, you would need to relayout your repository:

/gui/trunk
     branches
     tags

/solver/trunk
        branches
        tags

Andreas

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:24:23AM -0400, Amol Karnik wrote:
> hi David,
>
> thanks for your reply. unfortunately this wont help because i want to
> restrict read and write access to an entire directory in the repository
> (be in the branches or trunk or tags) to a certain users or groups of
> users. Looks like svn cant really do this, unfortunately.
>
> - amol
>
> David Weintraub wrote:
>
> >On 7/11/05, Amol Karnik <amol@coventor.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>hi all,
> >>
> >>am trying to convert our repository from cvs to svn. Am using svn1.2 and
> >>apache2.0 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0
> >>i've got the acess files and SSL authentication all set as per the svn
> >>book. I read the part in the book about per directory access control for
> >>harry and sally. However, there are no examples about how to control
> >>this for the same dir, in all the branches, tags and trunk.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You can control read access via the .htaccess files in Apache. This is
> >not the preferred method since these files apply to the entire
> >subtree. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html for more
> >details.
> >
> >If you don't care about read access, but only want to control write
> >access, use the Perl script that comes with Subversion in a pre-commit
> >hook script.
> >
> >
> >
> >>for example lets say i i have /src/gui and /src/solvers dirs in my
> >>repository under all branches, tags and trunk so far( based on cvs2svn
> >>conversion).
> >>I have two dev groups : solverdev and guidev.
> >>I want solverdev to access all dirs, but i dont want guidev to be able
> >>to read or write to src/solvers at all.
> >>
> >>how do i set this up using the apache access control file for svn?
> >>
> >>maybe like this:?
> >>===========================
> >>[myrep:/]
> >>@solverdev = tw
> >>@guidev =
> >>
> >>[myrep:/*/src/gui]
> >>@guidev = rw
> >>===========================
> >>
> >>but there doesnt seem to be a way to use a wildcard in dir.....the
> >>examples explicitly specify the branch name.
> >>
> >>thanks for your help!
> >>
> >>- amol karnik
> >>
> >>
> >>
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