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Re: Db based configuration for per-directory access control

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:50:39 -0500

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 14:39, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

We update our SVN authz & access files a few times a week and never
have to restart Apache.
Received on 2010-11-30 20:51:57 CET

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