Re: mod_dav_svn + automatic per-directory user authorization

2011-02-16 Thread m irya
> > This might be exactly what's needed if you're, say, teaching a programming > class where you want students to learn to use Subversion for version control > of their projects.  You don't want students to be able to mess with each > others' code, and you probably don't want to retain their data f

Re: mod_dav_svn + automatic per-directory user authorization

2011-02-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, David Chapman wrote: > Repositories are meant to preserve data, implying they are relatively > long-lived. Are you suggesting that repositories will be deleted all the > time? If so, a master server-based configuration like httpd may not be > appropriate for you

Re: mod_dav_svn + automatic per-directory user authorization

2011-02-12 Thread David Chapman
On 2/12/2011 1:11 PM, m irya wrote: Yep, i could manage to get to such configuration, but here's when it comes to the real difference with your setup: we need to manage a huge and frequently changing user database, with each user having a small repository. Here's the big caveat: whenever a rep

Re: mod_dav_svn + automatic per-directory user authorization

2011-02-12 Thread m irya
Yep, i could manage to get to such configuration, but here's when it comes to the real difference with your setup: we need to manage a huge and frequently changing user database, with each user having a small repository. > > Here's the big caveat:  whenever a repository is added or removed (in you

Re: mod_dav_svn + automatic per-directory user authorization

2011-02-12 Thread David Chapman
On 2/12/2011 8:34 AM, m irya wrote: The problem: 1) there's a directory on the server containing multiple svn repositories roots, say /var/svn, with /var/svn/a, /var/svn/b, etc. being repository roots 2) these repositories are accessed via HTTP, handled by Apache2 + mod_dav_svn 3) there's a MySQL

mod_dav_svn + automatic per-directory user authorization

2011-02-12 Thread m irya
The problem: 1) there's a directory on the server containing multiple svn repositories roots, say /var/svn, with /var/svn/a, /var/svn/b, etc. being repository roots 2) these repositories are accessed via HTTP, handled by Apache2 + mod_dav_svn 3) there's a MySQL user-password database we need to use