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RE: Re: Apache or svnserve?

From: Gale, David <David.Gale_at_Hypertherm.com>
Date: 2005-11-28 17:49:43 CET

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11/28/2005 3:32 AM, Thorsten Schacht wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to find out what authorization method is the best for me.
>> I cant find out much about pro's and con's so I ask you experienced
>> users
>>> )
>>
>> Needed is a Subversion for 15 developers in a company. Only internal
>> use. No web interface / statistics etc. needed.
>>
>> Currently we use CVS with ssh so I'm more at the svnserve side and
>> think Apache is too much for my needs.
>>
>> And how exactly works the Auth through Apache?
>>
>> Please share your experience with me.
>
> I don't think this will be an issue for you, but may be for some other
> people reading the thread:
>
> To use svnserve, users need shell accounts on the machine. That may
> be a concern if the machine belongs to one organization and the
> developers don't, but probably not in your case. (It's probably not
> strictly true, but you need to really know what you're doing to set
> up access to svnserve without giving a shell account.)

That's only true if you're using svn+ssh. svnserve by itself does not
have this requirement.

-David

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