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Re: svnserve changes ownership of files in FSFS repo...

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2009a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:26:05 -0500

On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:06, Ben Kyrlach wrote:

> Multiple users connect to SVN using SVN+SSH with a common key.
> The *nix machine hosting svnserve is using the authorized_keys file
> in each users $HOME/.ssh to launch svnserve when connecting with
> said key.
>
> Whenever a user makes a commit to the single FSFS repository there,
> the myrepository/db/current file has its ownership changed to the
> user. So, if I commit, the files ownership changes to
> bkyrlach.bkyrlach. Because the repository disallows any access at
> the “other” level, it essentially prevents any other users from
> committing to the repository. I’ve tried using sudo and or su in
> the authorized_keys file to run svnserve as root, but when I do
> this I get an error stating that I need a TTY in order to perform
> that action.
>
> Are my permissions set wrong perhaps? I had it set up so that
> everything myrepository under was owned by root.developers, and all
> of the people with svn access were in the developers group. Or is
> there a way to make svnserve not change ownership of that file?

You may need svnserve to be a wrapper script that sets a different
umask, then calls the real svnserve. This section of the book should
help:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.serverconfig.multimethod.html

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