Hi list, I am trying to deny a user access to a certain path in an SVN repository.
According to the documentation this is done by setting the username to empty like this: [calc:/branches/calc/bug-142/secret] harry = In http://grokbase.com/t/subversion/users/1019eey8h0/problem-implementing-path- based-authorization-with-authz I found this: If I remember correctly, you cannot have less than global read permissions on the repository's root if you're on SVN 1.5 or later. Maybe this is fixed in 1.7 (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3242), still I decided to start with read access for everyone and then to deny access to one path. This is the configuration of my SVN vhost: <VirtualHost *:443> <Location /> DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/repositories/ AuthType Basic AuthName "Repositories" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwd/rep Require user andre # Google: svn secure connection truncated SVNPathAuthz Off </Location> <Location /test/> AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwd/rep-test Require valid-user SVNPathAuthz On AuthzSVNAccessFile /etc/apache2/passwd/authz-test </Location> </VirtualHost> Inside the repository https://svn/test/ there is a directory test2. This is my current authz-test file, which is unable to stop user "andre" from accessing the directory "test2" and its content: [/] * = rw [/test2] andre = [/test2/] andre = [test/test2] andre = [/test/test2] andre = [test/test2/] andre = [/test/test2/] andre = [test:/test/test2] andre = [test/:/test2] andre = [test:/test2/] andre = [test/:/test2/] andre = [test:test2] andre = [test/:test2] andre = [test:test2/] andre = [test/:test2/] andre = When I comment the "* = rw" part, access to the repository is immediately denied, so at least the file isn't being ignored completely. I am using Subversion 1.7.8. Regards, André
