--- On Tue, 1/31/12, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Limited subdirectory access
> To: "K F" <cmkforce_at_yahoo.com>
> Cc: "users_at_subversion.apache.org" <users_at_subversion.apache.org>, "MarkCooke" <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 1:54 PM
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:22, K F
> <cmkforce_at_yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- On Tue, 1/31/12, Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com>
> >> Subject: RE: Limited subdirectory access
> >> To: "K F" <cmkforce_at_yahoo.com>,
> "users_at_subversion.apache.org"
> <users_at_subversion.apache.org>
> >> Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 9:25 AM
> >> > -----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
> >>
> > I tried without anything and still no good
> >
> > [/DEF]
> > @dev =
> > @dev1 = rw
> >
> >
> > I have setup a test repo called sandbox with some
> subdirectories. Here is my authz file minus all the
> commented out lines:
> >
> > [aliases]
> >
> > [groups]
> > dev = rcrespo, test
> > dev1 = test
> > qa = qagroup
>
> I can't explain why, and maybe it's been fixed in a later
> version, but
> I seem to recall having an issue with path-based
> authorization when
> the groups were defined with spaces. IOW, this:
>
> dev = rcrespo, test
>
> did not work properly but this:
>
> dev = rcrespo,test
>
> did.
>
I removed the space and that didn't work. I'm open to trying anything that is suggested.
Received on 2012-01-31 15:27:07 CET