Access right question

Dear SVN developers,

I have a question concerning the access rights of an svn repository.
When using the "ra_local" method (svn version 0.23), you face the
problem that whenever a user commits some changes, Berkeley DB stores
the transaction in a log file ("log.000000XXXX"). From time to time, a
new log file is created. Of course, its owner is the same as the user
that has commited the changes and, of course, the access rights of the
files are those of the user.

Now, if the user has a strict umask (0077), other users will not be able
to access the repository in the following and svn asks you to recover
the data base if you try to nevertheless.

I tried to solve this access problem by adding the following line in
hook "post-commit" (note: we trust all users in our network)

    find ${REPOS}/db -user ${UID} -exec chmod ugo+rw {} \;

While this seems to work well in most cases, I noticed that Berkeley DB
adds log information even in case of a "checkout"! (I can't see any
reason why this is so). Unfortunately, I do not know how to handle this
situation because there is no corresponding hook available.

How do other people handle the access rights when using "ra_local"? If
there is a nicer solution than mine, a short description should go into
the 'SVN Book'. I guess many people have the same problem and would be
grateful for some hints.

Kind regards,

Michael

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Received on Fri Jun 20 16:37:03 2003