On Feb 12, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:44 AM, David Brodbeck > <bro...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> Actually, I take that back, the manual says it's the *first* match: >> "Another important fact is that the first matching rule is the one which >> gets applied to a user." >> (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html) >> > > This is actually incorrect. See this recent discussion on the dev mailinglist: > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-01/0340.shtml > > The current documentation doesn't agree with how it actually behaves. > The documentation will probably be fixed to describe the current > behavior... > > I don't know if the behavior was different in 1.5 though.
Ah, OK. So all the permission lines that apply to a user are ORed together? That would make sense, and wouldn't affect my setup because I'm explicitly naming all users who should have access and then blocking the rest with "* =". -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington
