Re: svn+ssh://... shouldn't assume svnserve in user's PATH

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:53:07PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 15:30, Will Partain wrote:
> > Could we have something the equivalent of the CVS_SERVER env
> > var.? Or compile-time option; or config file thing; or ...
>
[snip]
> I'm afraid of implementing hackish, short-term solutions because we'll
> have to support them forever. It really seems simplest to mandate that
> people set up your path correctly on the server. Unfortunately, I've
> heard (though I haven't verified) that modern openssh makes that
> impossible for some users who don't have root access, by disabling
> .ssh/environment by default and bypassing .profile when a command line
> is specified.
[snip]

Well it's not impossible, because the user can still set up a public key
with corresponding entry in .ssh/authorized_keys looking like this:

command="/path/to/svnserve -r /some/path -t" ssh-dss AAAAB3...

It's just not as convenient, perhaps, but it also allows you to use the
"-r" switch, which just using .ssh/environment isn't enough for.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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