On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 04:23:29PM -0400, Cory J. Finger wrote: > Hello, I was researching the Authz system in Subversion. I was wondering if > there was any way to replace the AUTHZ file with a MySQL Database. If I use > apache is there any module I could use to achieve this?
No, unfortunately. To support this, the authz subsystem would need to be enhanced to support loading rule sets from multiple backends. Right now the text file parser is hard-coded into the mod_svn_authz module. This is a highly desired enhancement but nobody is currently working on it. If you have development resources available, please contribute! Since you're writing from a .edu address, maybe you could convince a student to tackle this project? :) Note that students wishing to work on a task within the Subversion project can apply for google summer of code grants once a year. See http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/ for more information about contributing to the project. > If not, what would be the best course of action for managing permissions for > a large amount of users? For now, you'll need to somehow generate the authz file from the database. See here for a script that scrapes an LDAP database and generates a corresponding authz file: http://www.thoughtspark.org/node/26 (Your question is not appropriate for this list, BTW. The correct forum for these kinds of questions is the users@ list, which is also read by some developers).
