Re: Db based configuration for per-directory access control

2010/11/25 Hoping White <baihaoping_at_gmail.com>:
> Hi all
>
> Is there any way to configure subversion to do per-directory access
> control via database not config file? I have googled a lot, and all
> found are telling how to configure apache login problem, not svn
> repository access control.
>

The access control file is simply a text file. It should be fairly
simple to read from a database, and create the text file from the
database. In fact, most database programs have triggers that can
trigger a program to execute whenever a database change is detected.

My experience has been that when the text file gets changed under
svnserve, the access is also changed without a restart of the
svnserve. This is a bit different from http/apache which requires a
restart of the httpd daemon.

Yes, this isn't a direct database control situation, but it will do
what you want: A change in the access control database changes the
access control in Subversion.

And, it really shouldn't be that difficult to do.

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David Weintraub
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