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Re: a few nits setting up svn...

From: Perry E. Metzger <perry_at_piermont.com>
Date: 2004-02-13 00:44:21 CET

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 16:24, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>> 4) As an aside, it would be neat if one could make the ra_svn goo
>> operate suid "svn" or something similar, so that the repository
>> could be writable only to "svn" and accidents could be avoided.
>
> Why don't you make the whole repository owned by user 'svn', then run
> 'svnserve' as a daemon, running as user 'svn'? That way, only one
> process will ever access the repository, and you don't need to worry
> about group perms or umasks or any other permissions accidents. Very
> clean and simple.

Can I do that even if we're using the svn+ssh: access method? I thought
the daemon mode applied only if you were using the svn: method...

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com
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