>From: "Tuncer Ayaz" <tuncer.ayaz@gmail.com>
>To: "Anthony Muller" <Anthony.Mueller@hyperoffice.fr>
>CC: users@subversion.tigris.org
>Subject: Re: [LINUX] How to launch svnserve process with another user than
>'root' ?
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:30:47 +0200
>
>On 8/30/06, Anthony Muller <Anthony.Mueller@hyperoffice.fr> wrote:
>>
>> > I don't know anything about Linux ... But I need to launch svnserve
>> > process (using xinetd deamon) with another user than 'root'.
>> >
>> > What must I change to do that?
>>
>>
>> > sample config which runs svnserve as user 'svn'
>>
>> > /etc/xinet.d/svn
>> > service svn
>> > {
>> > socket_type = stream
>> > protocol = tcp
>> > user = svn
>> > wait = no
>> > disable = no
>> > server = /usr/bin/svnserve
>> > server_args = -i -r /srv/svn
>> > port = 3690
>> > }
>>
>>Must I change anything on subversion's repositories files ?
>
>You have to change ownership of the repository (files, directories)
>to the user svn.
>To do this for this exact sample config (assuming svn belongs to his
>own group called svn as is the case on Debian GNU/Linux):
>$ chown -r svn:svn /srv/svn
>
>Just in cause you are really new to Linux and Unix in general I
>suggest you learn the basics first before doing something wrong
>as understanding the whole picture is (always) important.
>
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I was just looking at my cvs file and it's using 'root', it was installed
from an rpm but i'm not using cvs.
Is running svn as 'root' a security risk?
Jim
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