Re: Commit bot without password

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> On 12.09.2014 09:31, Kim Gräsman wrote:
>
>> This is not a problem for us, but it would be nice if one could
>> somehow perform authorization both before and after the precommit
>> hook.
>
> Did you mean authentication or authorization?

Authorization. We lock down our server occasionally by denying path
permissions to all users.

> In any case, both happen in the server (Apache or svnserve) before the
> repository code that runs the hooks is invoked, and that's not likely to
> change.

Ah, I see.

> However, nothing is stopping you from giving the commit robot different
> access rights than normal users, and even a different (possibly private)
> URL to use for commits.

Good input, thanks! We'll see what we can do with it.

- Kim
Received on 2014-09-12 16:53:00 CEST