Re: Setting a global path-based authorization

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Chris Marks <topher1120_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> We have multiple SVN repositories configured using Apache with SVNParentPath
> and path-based authorization.  We also have a build server user that I'd
> like to allow it to create tags for projects regardless of the repository
> and project.
> We have a standard structure in the repository that is shown below:
> Repo1
>    - project1
>         - trunk
>         - tags
>         - branches
>    - project2
>        - trunk
>        - tags
>        - branches
>
> Essentially, I'm looking for the real pattern to use that to me would be
> equivalent to:
> [*:/*/tags]
> buildUser = rw
>
> In my tests of this and permutations, it doesn't seem to work.
> Is this possible?  If so, how do I specify the pattern?

No, that's not possible currently. This same question came up a couple
of weeks ago on this same mailinglist:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-05/0346.shtml

As stated in that post, there is an open enhancement request for this:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2662 - authz with
wildcards

Cheers,

-- 
Johan