RE: SVN Security

Well, The per-directory security is just too difficult to understand and
implement.

Any plan to implement security feature in SubVersion in future?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 6:43 PM
To: Calvin
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: SVN Security

On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:12 PM, Calvin wrote:

> I am trying to evaluate SVN. I want to switch to SVN from Perforce
> because I
> am cheap.
>
> But after I read the articles regarding SVN, sounds like it lacks a
> fatal
> feature: Security?

<sarcasm>
   Oops, did we forget to add that ingredient? Damn! :-)
</sarcasm>

>
> I am using Windows 2k3, and I am a pure MSFT fan, don't want to
> pollute my
> environment with any apache etc.
>

<sarcasm>
    We'd hate to pollute that squeaky-clean ultra-secure MSFT
software with dirty old apache!
</sarcasm>

> I need to be able to set securities like which user can access what
> folder,
> which could be readonly, write, no access, ..., etc.
>
> Is there a way to do it in SVN? Any existing solutions?
>

Yes, many solutions. I don't know where you got the idea that
subversion was insecure, or lacked permissions features. Please
chapter 6 in the svn book:

          http://svnbook.red-bean.com

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Received on Sat Jul 16 05:24:01 2005