> I've found quite a few hits on Google regarding this subject, but I
> have not found any elegant solutions to this problem.
>
> I'm running SVN 1.6.9 (r901367) on FreeBSD (built from ports). I have
> the svnserve daemon running. I'm trying to have some areas of my
> repository be public (requiring no auth) and others be private
> (requiring auth even for read access). So, lines in my svnserve.conf:
>
> [general]
> anon-access = read
> auth-access = write
> password-db = passwd
> authz-db = authz
> realm = Rambetter's Code Repository
> [sasl]
> use-sasl = false
>
>
> Lines from passwd:
>
> [users]
> maj = fakepass
> rambetter = fakepass
>
>
> Lines from authz:
>
> [aliases]
> [groups]
> [/]
> rambetter = rw
> * = r
> [/repos/urt-playerdb]
> rambetter = rw
> * =
> [/repos/ioUrT-server-4.1-supersecret]
> maj = rw
> * =
> [/repos/jblockout]
> rambetter = rw
> * =
> [/repos/ioquake3-server-1.36-rambetter]
> rambetter = rw
> * =
> [/repos/ioUrT-server-4.1-rambetter]
> rambetter = rw
> * =
>
>
> I cannot perform an "svn log" from the paths above that have the "* ="
> (to restrict read access to the public). The error message is "svn:
> Item is not readable" when I perform and "svn log" on these restricted
> directories.
>
> I know this is a common problem, but is there an elegant way to to
> have both publicly readable and protected sections in the same
> repository? I have done one thing in the past, which is to create a
> user called "anonymous" with the empty password, and I tell the public
> that to check out they type this:
>
> svn checkout svn://daffy.nerius.com/repos/ioUrT-server-4.1
> --username="anonymous" --password=""
>
> ... but this approach seems to be very clumsy.
>
> Another solution that comes to mind is to start a whole new repository
> with a separate svnserve daemon. How would I move over an entire
> directory, all history included, if I were to do this?
>
> Any other solutions?
Did you attempt to pass your user credentials with the svn log command?
BOb
Received on 2010-02-26 22:51:00 CET