Hi Eugene, Review Board will, on demand, access the repository in order to generate diffs. This may happen when the author of a change uploads a patch, or when another user views it, or when a user accesses the New Review Request page, or as the result of an API call or script, or other circumstances.
Because of this, there needs to be a set of credentials that is guaranteed to work. Using the user’s credentials does not guarantee access (the credentials may be invalid or unset) and does not enforce access restrictions (the result of repository access operations are cached). It’s also safer not to have to store every user’s SVN credentials in the database. So basically, having a general form of access for each configured repository is a requirement that won’t change. You could in theory just have one username/password that’s shared across all SVN servers and then use that. - Christian -- Christian Hammond - [email protected] Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org Beanbag, Inc. - http://www.beanbaginc.com On August 25, 2014 at 3:53:24 PM, Eugene ([email protected]) wrote: We have multiple SVN repositories (all of them on internal company network). Access to them is controlled on a group-basis. When adding SVN repo to RB (2.0.6) it requires username and password. However, creating a dedicated generic username for each repo/user-group and then managing access both in RB and repository itself for each new repo/project requires quite a bit of redundant manual work... Why RB needs a generic username-pass for accessing repository? It is appreciated that file caching will be more efficient when repo is "public", but one can accept performance hit if administration of many repositories need to be minimized. So, is it possible to configure RB to use real user credentials instead of generic user's? Thanks in advance -- Get the Review Board Power Pack at http://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ --- Sign up for Review Board hosting at RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ --- Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Get the Review Board Power Pack at http://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ --- Sign up for Review Board hosting at RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ --- Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
