Re: Request: Specifications / Requirements that only svn canmeet

Ted Stern wrote:
> On 08 May 2009 14:46:40 -0700, webpost_at_tigris.org wrote:
>> Steve,
>>
>> You are correct, we primarily want to avoid the Expensive Bloated
>> Version Control System (tm).
>>
>> Requirements that CVS and svn (and perhaps other open source
>> software) can meet but commercial products can not would be fine.
>>
>> In the meantime I'll start bringing together some information on the
>> long term costs of using the other system. As a former site
>> administrator of the commercial system in question I am in an
>> especially good place to make that argument.
>>
>> -Andrew
>
> Here are a couple of requirements I don't think "EBVCS" can handle,
> but it's possible to do it in OSS tools such as Subversion, Git,
> Mercurial, Bazaar, etc.:
>
> High security access from anywhere on the internet.
>
> You can set up a single account that is the only one that can view the
> project.
>
> Then you multiplex the account via its ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
>
> Documented for Subversion in
>
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/ssh-tricks
> (Trick #4)
>
> and
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svnserve.sshauth
>
> There are similar ssh server modes for other systems.
>
> This lets you access the code from anywhere with an ssh route to the
> host.
>
> I need svn+ssh access this way because
>
> 1) Third party source code license requirements require secure access.
> 2) Users/developers are nationwide and don't have local accounts.
> 3) It works from any OS that OpenSSH runs on :-).
>
> plus this bit of sugar:
>
> 4) With svnserve's --tunnel-user option, you can change the log into a
> human-readable name format. This is a welcome change from CVS
> because our login names are basically line noise. The name I
> convert to is the standard name email format, first.last
> (@company.com is assumed).

Or, use https with an apache configuration that requires a client
certificate.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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