Re: database permissions

Dirk van Deun wrote:

>I'd like to do access control on a svn repository by simple unix group
>permissions. I can chown and chmod the files in .../db/... but I
>notice that extra files get created when the repository is used (named
>log.0000000002, log.0000000003,...). Those do not get the ownership
>and permissions of the rest of the files. Is this fixable ?
>
>I could ask the users to set their umask, and newgrp to the ad hoc
>project group before using svn; and this is fine for developing on the
>server itself, but it is impractical with svn+ssh-access.
>
>

Use a wrapper that sets umask and does anything else required. There's
some discussion of this here:
http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svnusers/archive-2003-08/0548.shtml

Cheers,
Mike.

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Received on Tue Mar 9 18:52:02 2004