On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Didier Trosset <didier_tros...@agilent.com>wrote:
> I have a subversion server running with apache. It authenticates users > using LDAP configuration and uses SVN path-based authorizations to limit > user access to certain repositories. This works perfectly. > > Now, I have a service I want to setup (rietveld, for code reviews) that > needs to have an anonymous access to the repository. As this is a web > service, accesses are always done from the same server. Thus I added an > apache configuration to allow accesses from this machine. without user > authentication. > > | <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT> > Order allow,deny > Allow from # private IP address > Satisfy Any > </Limit> > | > > This did not work until I add an additional line "* = r" in the > authorization file to allow read access to all users. > > For instance, before I add the authorization from a specific IP, all users > were authenticated, and thus had a name. Now, some accesses are done without > a user name! I found the |"-|" user name in the apache log files, but the > line "|- = r"| does not work, neither do |"anonymous = r"|. I'd like not to > allow read access to everyone in SVN authorization. How can I do this? > > (More details in stackoverflow question > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2728021/how-to-allow-unamed-user-in-svn-authz-file IMHO there is no way to do it other than creating a dummy user and giving it access to all repositories in authorization file as we had similar issues integrating Subversion repositories with JIRA. -- Vishwajeet Singh +91-9657702154 | dextrou...@gmail.com | http://bootstraptoday.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/vishwajeets | LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/singhvishwajeet
