Re: [viewvc-dev] ViewVC 1.1

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:11 PM, C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Phil Pinkerton wrote:
> > What is currently set:
> >
> > [general]  --  (don't see authorizer = in this section of the conf file
> )
> >
> > root_parents = /svn/Repositories : svn
> >
> > [utilities]
> >
> > svn = /svn/bin
> > diff = /usr/local/bin/diff
> >
> > [options] -- ( everything not listed here is default or commented out )
> >
> > authorizer = svnauthz
> > authorizer = forbiddenre -- ( this is working perfectly )
> > template_dir = /svn/src/viewvc-1.1-dev-2008328/templates
>
> If you have authorizer= in here twice, only the second instance will
> "take".
>  You cannot have multiple authorizers in play at once.  If you want
> 'svnauthz' to work, you have to give up 'forbiddenre'.
>
> >     * Are the names of the repositories in the svn.access file the same
> >     as the
> >     names of the roots under ViewVC?
> >
> >
> > This may be the issue as we put nothing here it is the commented out -
> > default
> > #svn_roots = svn: /home/svnrepos
>
> All repositories have names in ViewVC.  If they aren't explicitly named in
> svn_roots, they are implicitly named the same as their basename on disk.
>  So
> if you use:
>
>    root_parents = /opt/svn : svn
>
> And there is a repository sitting at /opt/svn/my-repos, then that
> repository's name in ViewVC is "my-repos".
>
> >     * Are you requiring all ViewVC users to provide usernames/passwords,
> >     where
> >     the usernames match those found in your svn.access file?
> >
> >
> > Yes we modified the httpd configuration file to use LDAP for ViewVC as
> > well as Subversion
> > this is working very well also.
>
> Cool.
>
> --
> C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
> CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand
>
> Well at this point I commented out all the Forbidden and Forbiddenre
attributes.

Set the authorizer = svnauthz and
authzfile = /svn/conf/accessControl/svn.access

I completely removed myself from the svn.access file,   However

I was still able to use ViewVC to see all repositories and subdirectories,
perhaps using LDAP has some conflict ?

Phil



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