Re: SVN https folder permissions

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:57:05PM -0000,
 Adrian Marsh <Adrian.Marsh_at_ubiquisys.com> wrote
 a message of 47 lines which said:

> The security settings are doing what they should, following the
> design, however, as "bob" does have access to /folder1, then surely
> he should be able to see that at the top level of the repository??

I'm not convinced. And, apparently, the Subversion developers are not
either.

If Bob has access only to /folder1, it makes sense to tell him to go
to https://svn.example.net/folder1 and never to
https://svn.example.net/

> In linux filesystems, this would equate to an "l" file permissions I
> believe.

I'm not aware of any such permission. Unix filesystems have "r"
(read), "w" (write) and "x" (execute but, for a directory, it means
permission to traverse but not to list).

Subversion had only "r" and "w" so it cannot do some things that can
be done in an Unix filesystem.

Also, in Unix filesystems, every directory has explicit permissions,
unlike Subversion. If you want to do a similar config in Unix, you
have to set / to be readable by Bob and be sure it has no read right
everywhere but in /folder1. Not more convenient.

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Received on 2008-11-23 22:28:43 CET