Thanks Nico,
On 17 Apr 2006, at 16:56, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Jamie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a web hosting provider and am looking into installing subversion
>> on out servers for out clients to use. Are there any guides on how
>> best to set up svn under these conditions? I am going to be using the
>> stand alone server not the web dav version.
>
> *DON'T*. Seriously, use the WebDAV version. The svnserver alone is
> distinctly insecure, since the passwords are sent in the clear. ssh
> +svnserve works, but then you need to set up SSH services, which I
> don't recommend for a hosted service.
At the moment we can't use WebDAV, we are running cPanel which
currently only supports apache 1.3, they are working on Apache 2
support at the moment but I don't know how long it will be until its
released in a stable version.
>> My main concerns are keeping track of users disk usage, how is this
>> handled by subversion? Each user has their own quota so I would like
>> their subversion repository to be within the users quota. Otherwise a
>> user could have as much space as the server allowed, which I do not
>> want to happen.
>
> Give them each their own repository. Put it in the user's "home
> directory" on the server, and use the quotas or use the quota
> management on *that*.
I was hoping this would be the case, I wasn't sure if which ever user
subversion runs as would be the users the files belonged to or if its
the user that logs in.
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Received on Tue Apr 18 02:22:22 2006