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Re: format: Permission denied even when read permissions are set

From: Jeremy Conlin <jlconlin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:47 -0700

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:22 AM, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Jeremy Conlin <jlconlin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:27 AM, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the reminder.  Currently it is just one user (me) that is
>> accessing this repository and I know I have access to the files and
>> folder in the directory as I showed in an earlier email and because I
>> can go inside and see everything.  What else could be wrong?
>
> Is this Subversion repository on your system or on another system? It
> could very well be that when you login as SSH, you are not exactly the
> user you think you are.
>
> Can you SSH directly into that system, check out your user ID and
> verify that its the ID you think it is?

Yes I can do this and I have verified that I am a member of the group
that owns the files and folders of the repository. The owning group
has read and write permissions.

>
> (Of course, you SHOULDN'T be able to SSH into the Subversion
> repository because that would allow users to munge the repository
> directly which they shouldn't be doing. But if you can, you can at
> least verify that you are who you think you are.)

How can you prevent this and still allow the users to read and write
to the repository?

Thanks,
Jeremy
Received on 2010-03-11 18:29:16 CET

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