On Nov 25, 2006, at 09:22, Gabor Maroti wrote:
> My intention is to set up a Subversion repository for a couple of
> users working at different desktops (btw in a Windows environment).
> Due to company policy, I cannot launch Apache or svnserve on a server
> machine.
[snip]
Have whoever made that company policy rethink it; it is silly. Use
svnserve (or apache) on a server machine. Give only the svnserve (or
apache) user access to the repository files on the server disk.
The alternative is to give all users complete access to the
repository files via a network share, as you propose. The problem
with this is that you cannot implement any security policy, because
it can be very simply circumvented by any user by copying the entire
repository to their local drive and removing the security
restrictions. Any user can also go in and delete any part of or
corrupt the repository, since they necessarily need full access to
the files in order to use the repository. This does not seem like a
situation that your company should tolerate; therefore, allow the use
of a server process which is designed to eliminate these problems.
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Received on Sat Nov 25 21:02:58 2006