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

the daemon checks to see if that user has permission (in the users
file? in the repository's group? in the crystal ball?), but then acts
on the DB as the user that started the daemon.

a daemon authenticates a local user already if you svn://localhost/...

- paul

On May 26, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:54, Paul Oppenheim wrote:
>> But why not use a method that already exists? The only reason i'm
>> using
>> ssh is that its security is guaranteed by a much larger user base, and
>> i trust having its port open far more than svnserve -d's port (3970?).
>> If there was an svnserve daemon that could authenticate a local user
>> (and not open a remote port!), it would be very handy to many folks.
>
> How could a daemon authenticate a local user?
>

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Received on Thu May 27 01:26:23 2004