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Re: Proposal: Support for versioning symlinks and other special files.

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2004-06-29 03:14:20 CEST

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 20:37, Bruce Elrick wrote:
> Wouldn't standard OS permissions on the client take care of this? The client process runs with no greater priveledges than the
> user running them, correct (the svn executable isn't setuid or setgid)? If the user can run the mknod command, how is letting svn
> do the same any different?

The idea here is to protect the user from the server, not to protect the
operating system from the user.

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