Re: restricting sub-directory permissions

2009-12-21 Thread Gabriel Ricardo
Ah, thanks for your response. I found my problem. I certainly did try the workaround, but after your response I thought again about my testing and setup. A simple oversight skewed my test results. I first logged into the restricted svn URL using proper username/password. I then tested the anon

Re: restricting sub-directory permissions

2009-12-21 Thread C. Michael Pilato
See my comment on the blog post, Gabriel. Did you actually *test* my workaround, or are you speculating based on your understanding of the theory of it. I'm happy to address actual problems found in the workaround -- *very happy*, in fact, since I'm using the workaround myself to protect private

Re: restricting sub-directory permissions

2009-12-21 Thread Gabriel Ricardo
Hi Jon, The link you sent was helpful and the final workaround mentioned in the article seems to work, except one thing... There seems to be a security hole, which is that web-browsing of the restricted sub-directory is still possible using the anonymous-open URL. Thus, the solution does not seem

Re: restricting sub-directory permissions

2009-12-20 Thread Gabriel Ricardo
Thanks for all the responses. I tried all of the suggestions, but unfortunately none of them worked. I also downloaded and installed subversion 1.6.5, along with apache 2.2.14 to see if maybe I needed more recent versions. I still have the same strange behavior, where either the sub-directory a

RE: restricting sub-directory permissions

2009-12-17 Thread Jon Foster
Hi, Gabriel Ricardo wrote: > I cannot figure out how to restrict permissions on a sub-directory. > What I want is to have anonymous read/write access to everything > except a sub-directory, where only two users have read/write and > everyone else has no access (read or write). I've done a lot of

RE: restricting sub-directory permissions

2009-12-17 Thread Engebakken Geir
Well, After lurking on this list for a year or so, this access system seems to be a problem for many users. It seems that there are all sorts of strange behaviour going on and one has to try all sorts of combinations before you find something working the way you want it to. We had a situation a

Re: restricting sub-directory permissions

2009-12-16 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gabriel Ricardo! > I cannot figure out how to restrict permissions on a sub-directory. > What I want is to have anonymous read/write access to everything > except a sub-directory, where only two users have read/write and > everyone else has no access (read or write). I've done a lot of