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Re: wild card support for authz

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 20:26:18 +0100

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:36, Kriparam Faraday <kriparam_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am not sure if this feature is part of the current 1.6 release. We have
>> created groups based on their work function(like developers, QA etc...). The
>> developers get RW access to everything including the documentation folder
>> and the source folder. The QA group gets RW in the documentation folder but
>> gets only R access in the source code. This works fine, until someone
>> decides to branch off or tag something from the trunk. I want to know if we
>> can use some wildcards to give QA default access into all the documentation
>> folders. for example:
>>
>> [<proj_name>:/branches/*/docs]
>> @dev = rw
>> @ qa = rw
>>
>> [<proj_name>:/branches/*/source]
>> @dev = rw
>> @ qa = r
>>
>> Will this work? or are there any other way to implement it?
>
> Authz does not support wildcards. If you need to restrict write access
> via wildcards, svnperms.py can be installed as a pre-commit hook
> script to provide more control over your access.

You may be interested to know that there is an open feature request
about this in the issue tracker:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2662 - authz with wildcards

Cheers,

-- 
Johan
Received on 2010-12-02 20:27:17 CET

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