Re: Problem with svn+ssh

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> authenticated to ssh as yourself.) So unless you're authenticating to
> ssh as user 'subversion', of course your 'svnserve' process doesn't have
> read-write access to the db files.

The problem in this case turned out to be the lack of o+rx permissions on
the subversion repository. Apparently, even though I had group read/write
permissions on all the database files, I needed o+rx on the parent
directory in order to for svnserve to work properly. I'm still not 100%
sure why that is so, but it seems to have solved issue for me.

> Have you read the 'svnserve' documentation in chapter 6 of the book?
> It explains this stuff in detail.

It could use a bit more detail. Overall, the documentation is quite good,
although a few more successful recipes for non-WebDAV configurations would
be very helpful. Granted, there are some subtle interactions, but a
known-good "test" configuration with listed permissions and so forth would
have saved me quite a bit of trial and error. :)

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