Jon Foster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Didier Trosset 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.
>> [... snip ...]
>> 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?
>
> Subversion's authz files support "$anonymous" to refer to anonymous
> users. (And "$authenticated" to refer to authenticated users).
Great! It works!
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
There's no mention of this in the SVN book. Is it a hidden feature? Will
it stay in future revisions?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jon
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Received on 2010-04-29 13:48:05 CEST