Hello, my intent is to make it easier to manage large amounts of users in my organization.
It has gotten to the point where we have an extremely large and hard-to-manage Authz file and would like a more scalable/automated solution. On Sep 17, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:34:33 +0200: >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 09:31:37AM +0100, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >>> Cory J. Finger wrote on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 16:13:15 -0400: >>>> Hello, I was wondering if there was any way that I would be able to >>>> replace the AUTHZ file for subversion with a MySQL database through an >>>> apache module or some other method. Is there any tried and true method >>>> out there? >>> >>> What are you trying to achieve by doing that? >> >> This feature is frequently requested by large organistations. >> >> If there already is a centrally managed database (such as LDAP) >> for managing access to user accounts and other resources, >> managing access to paths in Subversion repositories with a >> plain text file, i.e. outside of that database, can be cumbersome. > > That's one intepretation of the question. There are others (eg, > representing project root fspaths as LDAP directory entries or SQL > primary keys). I don't want to guess what the OP meant.
