Re: Permissions problem?

Wesley Spadola <wspadola@chinookglobal.com> writes:

> Would someone kindly explain to me what svnadmin does to reassign
> permissions, or what I should have done when I initially created the
> repository (should I have run svnadmin create as a certain user, certain
> group, in a certain directory?) so as to prevent this conflict?

Every process has a umask. When a process accesses the database files
directly, it can potentially change perms (or ownership) as a result,
messing things up for the next process that comes along.

Read the "repository permissions" section in chapter 5.

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Received on Tue Jul 15 18:05:36 2003