SUBVERSION ACL AUTOMATION

Information Science and Engineering

NATIONAL CONFERENCE on VLSI, COMMUNICATION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (NCVCS-2017)

To restrict individuals’ access to libraries and packages, Access Control List came into existence. ACL file consists of various groups and repositories. ACL defines which group has access to which repository. A group consists of users. If a group has access to a repository, then that group will be present along with its access right under the repository in ACL. In order to add a user to a repository, the user must be added to a group and that group must be added to the repository specified. So, people should manually go through a lot of groups in ACL to find a specific group where the user must be added and again search for the repository in the ACL and add the group under that repository. Along with that, people should also verify for duplicate repositories or groups before adding. This process is time consuming and very cumbersome. The problem with this approach is that it requires a lot of time to go through the Access Control List file to make changes and is not secure. Developing an application for managing the Access Control List file provides an alternative way in this direction. ‘Access Control List Automation’ application which handles most of the change patterns that occur commonly to the Access Control List file. This application not only makes it a lot easier to edit the Access Control List file, but also provides rich set of features such as security, notification and also saves a lot of time.

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