[PD-dev] CVS/SVN @ iem (was Re: [GEM-dev] CVS...)

[Thomas Grill]

Thomas Grill schrieb:
> Hi Iohannes,
>> another important issue is, that svn knows nothing about priviliges 
>> (you cannot restrict users to read-only in a special branch (or 
>> rather subdirectory, as that is how svn handles branches) directly.
>> such privilege separation is currently used in the pd-CVS on sf.
>> i am pretty sure that it is possible by sophisticated usage of the 
>> apache-<Limit>, but i have no experience on making it work together 
>> smoothly.
>>
> i don't think this is true any longer for the current svn series 1.3. 
> It includes the mod_authz_svn module which can be used for path-based 
> authorization.
sorry, i mixed up two things:
- mod_authz_svn is for WebDAV access (and allows fine-grained authorization)
- the stand-alone server version 1.3 allows the same independently from 
mod_authz_svn

greetings,
Thomas

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