Questions tagged [authz]

authz is a shorthand for "authorization" in a variety of development contexts.

authz is an abbreviation of authorization, the concept of giving permission to do something on behalf of an authenticated user.

The term authz is frequently used in relation to Apache's authentication and authorization modules, where authentication is abbreviated "authn".

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authz_dbd, multi user authentication and individual folders through .htaccess

Intro Our apache2 setup serves files from a wide variety of folders using webdav, and use authz_dbd to communicate with a mysql database (this part works without problems). Summary: Apache2, mod_authz_dbd, mod_authn_dbd, mysql, enabling webdav,…
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apache2 SVN (authz) setup. Want second website to only allow those with rw permissions

I have an apache2.4 setup hosting subversion (SVN) repositories wonderfully. I use an authz file to control access to my repositories, and give different users different permissions to different repositories. I am now making a companion site, (It's…
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Proper Trac Setup of Permissions

I have installed Trac on my webserver. First of all it seems in secure because it immediately exposed my repository to the world. How does Trac access my repository without providing it with some credentials to access the authz protected repository?…
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Restrict access to connection pool in Weblogic?

In short, how can I restrict access to connection pool X based on application name or JAR name? A simple use case might help... A business web-app (call it WEB_APP_A) uses pool Y to do basic look-up SQL. Some users of this web-app have access to…
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Issue with svn lock and AuthzSVN in Path Based Authorization

I'm trying to set up patch based authorization in SVN using LDAP and AuthzSVNAccess and my initial test was just to give read/write access to everyone in order to check that the config was working correctly. I have my Apache conf as:
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svnserve path-based authorization settings

I am using svnserve 1.4 running under Windows 7. I want to control user permissions by using an authz file. I want to give the 'rw' permission to a subfolder while the root folder is read protected. I have a large repository and want to give 'rw'…
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authz directory identifiers not support

Without using the authz, all the svn users can login and use the repos without issues. However, I would like to limit the access to some directories - not to be readable or writeable for all users. svnserve --version => 1.6.6 I tried both, granting…
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Branching directory with partial read access

I have a svn repository using authz to control the access. The structure looks like this: ├── branches │   └── bob ├── tags └── trunk └── A ├── B │   └── README.txt └── README.txt Suppose the authz grants a user read…
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