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Re: svnserve + ssh on Mac OS X

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-08-24 04:46:33 CEST

Bradley Wagner wrote:
> So, there is no configuration required to use SVN through SSH? All I
> have to do is make sure svnserve and svn are in the User's path, and
> ssh takes care of the rest? What's all that talk about the -t flag
> allowing tunneling when running svnserve?

I think you're missing some fundamental concepts about how svn+ssh://
works. You should read this section of the book:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svnserve.sshauth

"The important thing to understand here is that the Subversion client is
not connecting to a running svnserve daemon. This method of access
doesn't require a daemon, nor does it notice one if present. It relies
wholly on the ability of ssh to spawn a temporary svnserve process,
which then terminates when the network connection is closed."

The svn client is running 'ssh remotehost svnserve -t'. You don't need
to do a thing on the server, other than have 'sshd' running and
'svnserve' installed.

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