Re: Path-based auth with svn+ssh

Hello Lieven,

thanks for the quick reply.

On Monday March 20 2006 13:58, Lieven Govaerts wrote:
> Martin,
>
>
> I think you're seeing issue 2486 (
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2486 ).

Indeed, this seems to be the problem I encounter.

>
> A workaround for this issue is to give user joe read-access on the root of
> the repository.

Doesn't it mean that joe has automatically read-access to all subfolders in
the repository? This would be less than desirable.

> I've send a patch to the dev-list for this issue, but it's not accepted
> (yet). I hope that it's included in svn 1.3.2.

Good work, thanks for that!

On an (un)related note, does it matter what I call my repository in the authz
file?

Example:

Do the following two lines have the same effect?

[repository:/trunk]
* = r

[repos:/trunk]
* = r

I ask because the svnserve.conf that comes with a newly created repository has
the first form in it, and I read the second form in the bug report you
relayed me to in your last message.

Does the first part (before the colon) matter at all? (Because, my repository
is not called "repository" or "repos", but "svn" ...)

Thanks again!

Kind regards
Martin

> Lieven.
>
> Quoting Martin Eisenhardt <martin.eisenhardt@wiai.uni-bamberg.de>:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I would like to setup a repository that is *only* accessible over
> > svn+ssh. I follow
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.s
>erverconfig.svnserve.sshtricks
>
> > to setup public-key-based authentication and let all users share the same
> > account (using 'command="svnserver -t --tunnel-user=joe" JOES-KEY
> > joe@example.com' in .ssh/authorized_keys).
> >
> > Everything works all right so far.
> >
> > Now, and additionally, I would like to setup path-based authorization. I
> > uncomment the lines "[general]" and "authz-db = authz" in svnserve.conf,
> > and the file authz contains the following lines:
> >
> > [repository:/trunk]
> > joe = rw
> >
> > Trying to commit something to that repository yields:
> >
> > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> > svn: Authorization failed
> >
> > Where is the problem? Have I exposed myself as noob? :-D
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Martin
> > --
> > Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf.(Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt
> >
> > Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
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> >
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> >
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