Re: File access control

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Grant <emailgrant_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I see that subversion supports path-based authorization:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html
>
> Is there a way to do file-based authorization?  Or maybe some sort of
> trickery to mimic file-based authorization?  If not, can anyone think
> of a way to allow read/write access to only certain files in a working
> system?  I could use chmod/chown but the files to which access is
> allowed will be changing pretty frequently so it would be nice to have
> accessible files defined in a list as part of the version control
> system, file transport mechanism, or anything else.

Files are paths too. The path-based authz applies to any path (folder
or file). For example:

[repos:/trunk/readme.txt]
@releng = rw
* = r

A rule like that works fine.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/