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Re: svnserve authz: requires root read access

From: marko <mailto.tsiburaska_at_mail.ee>
Date: 2006-01-11 20:00:40 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
>

hi, i have the same problem, 'foo' has access to do anything, 'bar' will
have read access to
'/open' path, but no write access to anywhere. bug or incorrect
configuration?

marko

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