On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:20:53AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > [added scm-migration-dev to the cc list] > > >>>>> "MikeC" == Shuai Mike Cheng <Mike.Cheng at Sun.COM> writes: > > MikeC> In SWAN, what we can do over NFS it use the group id to let the > MikeC> people in the same project can do putback. But all of us are in > MikeC> the same group "staff". > > Yes, that's an interesting point. We've thought about how to do access > control for workspaces that live on opensolaris.org, but we haven't > thought much about access controls for other Mercurial workspaces. > > Filesystem access control lists are a generalization of Unix groups. So > I wonder if UFS or ZFS access control lists could work. Anyone want to > look into it?
Mercurial relies 100% on the filesystem to manage access control when repos are accessed via filesystem or ssh. ACLs should work fine, provided all the directories are properly set to pass on the appropriate ACLs to newly-created files. -- "Love the dolphins," she advised him. "Write by W.A.S.T.E.."
