On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Didier Trosset
<didier_trosset_at_agilent.com>wrote:
> I have a subversion server running with apache. It authenticates users
> using LDAP configuration and uses SVN path-based authorizations to limit
> user access to certain repositories. This works perfectly.
>
> Now, I have a service I want to setup (rietveld, for code reviews) that
> needs to have an anonymous access to the repository. As this is a web
> service, accesses are always done from the same server. Thus I added an
> apache configuration to allow accesses from this machine. without user
> authentication.
>
> | <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from # private IP address
> Satisfy Any
> </Limit>
> |
>
> This did not work until I add an additional line "* = r" in the
> authorization file to allow read access to all users.
>
> For instance, before I add the authorization from a specific IP, all users
> were authenticated, and thus had a name. Now, some accesses are done without
> a user name! I found the |"-|" user name in the apache log files, but the
> line "|- = r"| does not work, neither do |"anonymous = r"|. I'd like not to
> allow read access to everyone in SVN authorization. How can I do this?
>
> (More details in stackoverflow question
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2728021/how-to-allow-unamed-user-in-svn-authz-file
IMHO there is no way to do it other than creating a dummy user and giving it
access to all repositories in authorization file as we had similar issues
integrating Subversion repositories with JIRA.
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Received on 2010-04-29 11:54:14 CEST