Re: svnserve/authz mod questions..

Do you have any solution in place now? Like a unix group for each
folder of files? You can easily set up a cron to rebuild svn authz
info based on unix groups or whatever else you may have to keep track
of who has access to what.

On 10/5/06, bruce <bedouglas@earthlink.net> wrote:
> hey mark..
>
> my initial thought is to have a layout with folder/files as follows:
> college
> sports.py
> academic.py
>
> each college folder is for a give college
> each sports.py parses a section of the college site
> each academic.py parses a section of the college site
>
> the initial concern is that i don't want a user to be able to access a file
> he doesn't have access to. while i can use authz/svnserve to manage user
> access at the folder/file level, i haven't found any good toool that's setup
> to do this for a repository that might have lots of folder/file
> combinations...
>
> however, if instead of one large svn repository, with lots of folders, if i
> changed and had lots of repositories, each of which only had the files, this
> is apparently easily managed in an automated manner within a website, using
> something like insurrection.
>
> so my question/concern is really how to automatically assign/modify user
> access to folders/files within a repository.
>
> thoughts/comments/etc...
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grimm26@gmail.com [mailto:grimm26@gmail.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:09 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: svnserve/authz mod questions..
>
>
> Just to clarify, you want to be able to give different access rights
> to different files within the same directory? Sounds overly complex
> to me. If you can manage to get files with the same authz
> requirements in folders together, then you can easily manage with the
> standard svn authz with svnserve or dav access.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what kind of data is in your repository?
>
> On 10/4/06, bruce <bedouglas@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > hi...
> >
> > i'm looking at being able to do a project using subversion. the project
> > would have 100s of folders, with different files in the folders. i'd like
> to
> > be able to automatically manage the ability of users to be able to access
> > the information within the folders/files.
> >
> > however, the tools that i've seen so far, (svnmgr/insurrection) don't have
> > the ability to manage user access at the folder/file level.
> >
> > so... my question, should i look into modifying these tools to provide
> > folder/file level user access.. which could be a pain!!! or do i take the
> > easy way, and essentially allow each folder to become its' own repository,
> > which means i have 100s of little small repositories, but i could place
> them
> > all under the same dir...
> >
> > in theory, i would/should/could potentially use the same svnserve/authz
> file
> > for the user access to the repositories as well...
> >
> > thoughts/comments/etc...
> >
> > thanks
> >
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