> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 8:43 PM
> To: Geoffrey Ducharme
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: A mod_svn_authz question.
>
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 18:33, Geoffrey Ducharme
> <geoffrey.ducharme_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I was reading the Red Book and something is not clear to me. Are the
> authorization files for directory access loaded when Apache boots, or
> are accessed every time a relevant request that needs authorization is
> submitted to Apache?
> >
> > I'm asking this because we are going to support thousands of users
> with our deployment. Authorization of users and repositories are likely
> to change often and rebooting Apache would be a very painful operation
> and process.
>
> They are read for each request. No Apache restart is required when
> changing user passwords or authorization rules.
That's interesting...I thought we found it to be otherwise. However, we restart for this sort of change using a graceful restart that does not drop connections. And if there is a serious typo, I believe the restart fails.
--Todd
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