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RE: Limited subdirectory access

From: Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:25:11 +0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: K F [mailto:cmkforce_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: 30 January 2012 20:40
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Limited subdirectory access
>
> We have repo ABC with 40+ subdirectories. Current svn
> security allows developers rw permissions and qa read only to
> ABC. We would like to have a subgroup of dev to have access
> to subdirectory DEF (ABC/DEF). Is there a way of doing this,
> or does the parent directory access take precedent?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html

The most specific access takes precedent. You would need to 'revoke' the normal developer's access to the subdir (if I understand you correctly) by assigning either 'r' or just nothing to their group...

~ mark c
Received on 2012-01-31 10:26:08 CET

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