access control in bazaar

[Daniel Plappert]

Hi John,

thanks for your answer. 

> If you want to say: "I have $PROJECT which has several in-progress
> branches. I want user to be able to upload changes to a subdirectory
> $PROJECT/user1/* but not to upload changes to $PROJECT/trunk".
> 

Yes, this is what I want, but I wanted it without adjusting filesystem privileges. But if this is the only way, I can live with it.

> That can be done fairly trivially with just filesystem privileges.
> 
> bzr init-repo --no-trees $PROJECT
> mkdir $PROJECT/User1
> mkdir $PROJECT/User2
> bzr init $PROJECT/trunk
> find $PROJECT/.bzr -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 2770 # rwxrws---
> find $PROJECT/.bzr -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 660  # rw-rw----
> find $PROJECT/User1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 6750 # rwsr-s--
> find $PROJECT/User2 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 640  # rw-r----
> find $PROJECT/trunk -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 2750 # rwxr-s--
> ...
> 
> chown -R User1.Project $PROJECT/User1
> chown -R User2.Project $PROJECT/User2
> chown -R SuperUser.Project $PROJECT/trunk
> 

Thank you very much for this example. It's exactly what I was trying to do.

Best regards,
Daniel