From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RAqlX-0008KI-1l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:13:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FC9421C214; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:13:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0961421C150 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzt12 with SMTP id zt12so7450842bkb.40 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:12:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=A2hNBWf/DGMAEY/fn2T5ZnKo6RQgibhW5ZMeL+RSIa0=; b=RGHtCMAJ9UrTqT7AeHD0gbGPiL9571iN1/QXxarpLP6zWKXbTWKxnQ2xFnmhnQRt5q xLSENv8CRFxj1UWUR7K9u0e58ysAFlXBi+l2WyCwSx62Nh/PXi9zBQlgKiSzOGJ5W4n9 JbgQD9ykE/ozna87m90Q3bbu+LPnOM3NfphJo= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.135.72 with SMTP id m8mr225970bkt.389.1317679935085; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.177.199 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:12:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E86F47B.5090407@binarywings.net> <201110022350.06088.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 18:12:15 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cefe1718127f05a26ce4dea6d1a65cc8 On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Grant wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure if you are overcomplicating this by trying to use Unix >>> >>> permission. =C2=A0Have you instead considered webdav? =C2=A0You can= restrict this >>> >>> to particular (apache) users/groups, directories, files. =C2=A0It a= lso uses >>> >>> lockfiles so with two users editing a file simultaneously will caus= e a >>> >>> warning when you try to save it. >>> >> >>> >> How does webdav relate to something like subversion? =C2=A0Do they >>> >> compliment each other or are they substitutes? >>> >> >>> >> - Grant >>> > >>> > WebDAV has no version control. It is just an extension to HTTP for >>> > distributed authoring. It supports locking files and methods which m= ake >>> > it more filesystem-like. AFAIK SVN uses WebDAV for its HTTP transfer >>> > protocol. >>> >>> Got it. =C2=A0It sounds like I could use WebDAV in conjunction with >>> subversion or git. =C2=A0I'll look into that. >> >> The reason I mentioned webdav(s) earlier was because you can have granul= ar >> control of what each user can access. =C2=A0You need specify only what >> directory/file you want them to be able to access and they shouldn't hav= e >> access to anything else. > > I believe the same is accomplished through the use of subversion's > path-based authorization. > >> Also, you don't need to give them shell access - which I find >> (psychologically) more reassuring. =C2=A0;-) > > I like that a lot. =C2=A0The way I understand it, in order to edit a file > with subversion, you would check out the file from the repository to > your local machine, edit it on your local machine, and commit your > changes to the repository. =C2=A0How does the workflow change with webdav= ? It doesn't need to. From the user's perspective, the URI to the repo changes. That's pretty much it. (I.e. we went from svn://servername/path to https://servername/svn/path ) --=20 :wq