bzr serve and access control?

[Ben Finney]

Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:05:49PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > [creating user accounts] is the option that would be most natural,
> > AFAICT. I don't understand the connection between “it is a server”
> > and “you might not want [user accounts for users]”. It sounds very
> > much like you *do* want user accounts.
>
> No, I do not want user accounts. I just want to give other people
> access to specific repositories. This is not necessarily the same.

Can you please explain what you mean by this statement:

> This way you end up with having lots of user accounts, which you might
> not want to have, since it is a server.

You say this as though there were some clear connection between “it is a
server” and “you might not want to have lots of user accounts”. What is
it about a server that makes lots of user accounts undesirable, as
compared with any other kind of host?

I don't mean to pick on that clause; but without it, the statement
merely devolves to “you might not want to have lots of user accounts
[for lots of users of the service]”, and I'm still searching for the
reasoning behind that.

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Ben Finney