Re: Ev2 and Authz

2012-04-17 Thread Branko Čibej
On 17.04.2012 19:48, Branko Čibej wrote: > The related right is called "directory traversal" and is, indeed, > orthogonal to read and write permissions on directories (which are > usually further split into read/write contents and read/write > attributes). It is a property of directories, not leaf

Re: Ev2 and Authz

2012-04-17 Thread Branko Čibej
On 16.04.2012 15:12, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 04/14/2012 11:00 AM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> Good morning (in some parts of the world)! >> >> I've been doing some poking around with Ev2 and copy operations on the >> ev2-export branch, and have some observations which merit discussion. >> >> In

Re: Ev2 and Authz

2012-04-17 Thread Mark Phippard
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Julian Foad wrote: > We should be very cautious about proposing an apparently "simple" special > case like that.  A file has properties and > text content; a directory has properties and children; that's how it is in > Subversion.  Saying that a user should be a

Re: Ev2 and Authz

2012-04-17 Thread Thomas Åkesson
On 17 apr 2012, at 11:47, Julian Foad wrote: > Thomas Åkesson wrote: > >> I have not had time to follow the Inherited Properties thread completely, >> but >> this is kind of related. One could argue that if a user knows about the URL >> to >> /A/B/C/D, then what is the harm in letting him re

Re: Ev2 and Authz

2012-04-17 Thread Julian Foad
Thomas Åkesson wrote: > C. Michael Pilato wrote: >> CollabNet's modified ViewVC in its Enterprise Edition product implemented >> this sort of functionality, and the result was that users could always see >> the root directory, and any paths inside it necessary to navigate down to a >> path to

Re: Ev2 and Authz

2012-04-16 Thread Thomas Åkesson
On 16 apr 2012, at 15:12, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 04/14/2012 11:00 AM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> Good morning (in some parts of the world)! >> >> I've been doing some poking around with Ev2 and copy operations on the >> ev2-export branch, and have some observations which merit discussion. >

Re: Ev2 and Authz

2012-04-16 Thread C. Michael Pilato
On 04/14/2012 11:00 AM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > Good morning (in some parts of the world)! > > I've been doing some poking around with Ev2 and copy operations on the > ev2-export branch, and have some observations which merit discussion. > > In the working copy and elsewhere, all versioned nodes