Re: svn+ssh, authz and unix groups

On Dec 13, 2007, at 14:29, Bernd Kuemmerlen wrote:

> we have a SVN 1.4.4 repository on a Mac OS X server which is
> accessed only
> through svn+ssh. We now want to implement path-based authorization,
> and
> since we already have unix-groups in place which we'd like to use
> to base
> access on, I was wondering if it would be possible to somehow directly
> reference the unix group membership within the authz file.

I don't think so.

> Recreating the
> groups "manually" (or even with a script) in the authz file seems
> suboptimal to me.

Maybe you could write a script to automatically create the authz file
from the unix groups, and run this whenever you add a group (or
periodically via cron or launchd).

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Received on Fri Dec 14 01:59:47 2007