Re: Somewhat corrupted repository: Berkeley DB Permissions errors on SVN 1.0.2

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 14:48, Paul Oppenheim wrote:

> The current permissions and access system is very confusing to those
> who are developers, not unix sysadmin gurus. As it is, svn+ssh does not
> work correctly out of the box. Why does it work the way it currently
> does (that is, designed to ignore that it needs some type of umask
> intervention), and is there change in the wind? Do I have to do the
> somewhat dodgy umask shuffle, or is there another way?

There's no other way. svn+ssh:// isn't for the faint-hearted. There's
no magic way to make it "work out of the box".

CVS has similar problems out-of-the-box, assuming you have a bunch of
system users all reading/writing RCS files. It's just the natural
side-effect of a bunch of users trying to directly access database
files.

The only "clean solution" is to allow a *single* process to own and
access the database.

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Received on Wed May 26 21:57:09 2004