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RE: Why get db/current recreated?

From: Gavin Lambert <gavinl_at_compacsort.com>
Date: 2005-12-12 23:22:32 CET

Quoth Jörg Sommer <mailto:joerg@alea.gnuu.de>:
> I run an open SVN repository on a multiuser system. I believe
> I closed all (but one) ways anyone can mangle the repository.
>
> The file db/current is recreated (I suppose create db/foo;
> write db/foo; rm db/current; mv db/foo db/current) everytime
> a commit happens. This leaves a hole in my system. Anyone
> could rename or delete files in db/, because I must leave db
> world-writable. If access to this file would happen "inplace"
> I could make the directory world-readable and noone could mange the
> contents of db/.

Just use a server process and make the repository only writable by the
user that the server is running as. And don't use file:// URLs any
more.

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