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RE: svnserve authz: requires root read access

From: Mathias Weinert <mathias.weinert_at_gfa-net.de>
Date: 2006-01-11 08:45:35 CET

Paul Egan <paulegan@mail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I've been trying out the new authorization functionality for svnserve.
>
> My intention was to give a particular user read/write access to a single
> directory only, e.g.:
>
> [/]
> foo = rw
> [/open]
> bar = rw
>
> User bar can now read only from /open and no other directory.
> Unfortunately any write to /open returns with an "Access denied".
> With root read access enabled for bar, writes now succeed, e.g.:
>
> [/]
> foo = rw
> bar = r
> [/open]
> bar = rw
> [/other]
> bar =
>
>
> Is this intended or a bug? I presume a call to open_root() is the
> culprit. Whether bug or feature, the work-around of enabling
> root read access and then disabling access to each other top-
> level, is quite a pain.
>

Hi Paul,

I already posted this question (bug or feature) some days ago
but didn't get any answer yet (Subject was: "Strange behaviour
of svnserve authz").

Mathias

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