Re: repository permissions - some general security questions

Timothee Besset <timo@qeradiant.com> writes:

> Ok, now that subversion is alpha I am seriously looking at setting it up
> for some experiments. My main concern right now is security. Read/Write
> user permissions, and doing everything through ssl is documented, and
> should work fine.
>
> My problem is with the repository filesystem itself. The README advises to
> chmod 777 which give +rw to anything on the system.

That's pretty silly, we should change the README.

The svn repository simply needs to be +rw by the httpd process.

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Received on Wed Jul 24 16:14:13 2002