Repository file permissions

Hello,

I have a question about file ownership regarding DB.

To access a SVN repository hosted on Mac OS X 10.2 stored in the
filesystem at /usr/local/svn/repos1 and served through Apache, I
changed ownership of /usr/local/svn/repos1 to the user www and group
www:

        % sudo chown -R www /usr/local/svn/repos1

        % sudo chgrp -R www /usr/local/svn/repos1

Otherwise, DB would issue the following error:

        Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
/usr/local/svn/repos1/db: Permission denied

Whenever I want to use svnadmin I change ownership of the directory and
its contents with

        % sudo chown -R <uid> /usr/local/svn/repos1

        % sudo chgrp -R <gid> /usr/local/svn/repos1

where <uid> and <gid> are replaced with the IDs of my user.

The problem with this approach is that it prevents me from setting a
post-commit hook for incremental repository dumps: the script will be
run as user www and therefore result in the DB error

% svnadmin dump /usr/local/svn/repos1 --incremental > /tmp/repos1.dump
subversion/libsvn_fs/bdb/bdb-err.c:58: (apr_err=160029)
svn: Berkeley DB error
svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
/usr/local/svn/repos1/db:
Permission denied

It seems to me that the DB files should be owned by a certain group
that would allow both Apache access and execution of the DB process.

Sincerely, Sancho Neves-Graca

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Received on Tue Oct 14 18:41:26 2003