Re: Trying (failing) to limit access to one user

Alan M. Evans wrote on Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:20:15 -0700:
> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 21:07 +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>
> > Perhaps
> >
> > [/]
> > ~jon = rw
>
> Nope. jon still able to check out the entire repository tree.
>

Works for me with svnserve. You may need an explicit 'jon = ' entry as well?

And, by the way, regarding what I said before --- the '~' feature is
documented in the default $REPOS/conf/authz file. I haven't actually
read the book in a long time so I don't remember if it's documented
there as well.

> So far, it seems that the only rules that make any difference are "* ="
> and "$authenticated =". These give everybody access. Without one of
> these present, nobody has access. And now I can add "~anyname =" to that
> list.
>
> Using "anyname =" doesn't seem to have any effect at all on access. It
> certainly doesn't grant any access to anyname.
>
> This is why I mentioned in my OP that I thought this might be me
> misunderstanding the meaning of "anonymous access" in this context.
>
> -Alan
>
>
>
Received on 2011-04-27 20:30:14 CEST