restricting sub-directory permissions

2009-12-16 Thread 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 reading of the manual and googling t

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

RE: restricting sub-directory permissions

2009-12-17 Thread Engebakken Geir
briel Ricardo [mailto:gabriel.rica...@gmail.com] Sent: 16. desember 2009 20:36 To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: restricting sub-directory permissions 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

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

2009-12-20 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

2009-12-21 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

2009-12-21 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
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