SVN+SSH path level permission control

sde · 11-25-2007, 04:29 PM

Does subversion support path access restrictions via the /conf/authz file? I recently setup a svn server with svn+ssh, but all path restrictions are ignored.

redhead · 11-26-2007, 09:04 AM

Have you looked at the Buildin Authentication and Authorization settings ? Or perhaps the SSH tunneling

sde · 11-26-2007, 09:42 AM

well, i'm using ssh tunneling. i just can't get it to work with the authz file restrictions. the authz file allows you to restrict users to projects.

reasons for using ssh tunneling is primarily for security.

DJMaze · 11-27-2007, 03:46 AM

Look at gForge AS (not the OpenSource version) which is free for up to 15 users.
It allows easy management of that, and more.

GForge Group - Collaborative Development Environment

sde · 11-27-2007, 04:05 PM

looks cool, but a bit overkill for what i need right now. i'm guessing that software is not using ssh tunneling. i'll probably ditch that for the standard web_dav mode.

DJMaze · 11-28-2007, 12:28 AM

ok, but it does include a "hint": Pre-commit check failed

SVN supports pre-commit checking, you just have to write somesort of perl script?

sde · 11-28-2007, 02:29 PM

i figured it out today.

the password (passwd) and authorization (authz) files are only used by svnserve . once i ran svnserve as a daemon and accessed via: svn://, the permission files were respected.

we need to control read access permission based on users so pre-commit wouldn't work for that.