[PATCH] svnadmin create --owner --group (Third time's a charm???)

Third call for someone to OK my 'svnadmin create --owner --group' patch:

        http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1541

This may seem like a minor issue, but this patch does the right thing the first
time when creating a repository under *nix-like O/S's. It's a common complaint
from new [to *nix] admins; the book still assumes that the administrator knows
how permissions and ownership operate together.

The patch includes both code and documentation. I thought it was appropriate to
leave the patch attached to the issue, rather than attaching it here as well.

Log
[[[
Implement two new options to the 'svnadmin create' command to explicitly
create a new repository with rights appropriate for either

1) exclusive access by a single user/process
2) shared access by all members of an existing system group

This is likely to only be relevant to Unix-like operating systems,
where chown(), chmod(), setgid(), and setuid() are meaningful.

* configure.in
     Add tests to check for existance of chown, chmod, setgid, and setuid

* subversion/svnadmin/main.c
     (#include) - need svn_private_config.h in order to get autoconf #define's

     (enum),(options_table),(cmd_table): add owner_id, group_id to option tables

     (subcommand_create): Add logic to get system UID and GID and switch
     current process to those values before calling svn_repos_create()
     Create empty top level repository directory first and change ownership

* doc/book/book/ch05.xml
     (svn-ch-5-sect-2): Add paragraph and link to discussion of --owner and
     --group options in svn-ch-5-sect-5.

     (svn-ch-5-sect-5): Document the use of --owner and --group to create
     the repository with specific rights for limited repository access.
]]]

Thanks

John

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John Peacock
Director of Information Research and Technology
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
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