Re: Help with Mac repositry permissions

On Sep 8, 2010, at 04:53, Giulio Troccoli wrote:

>> Also the /Users folder perms is:
>> drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 204 18 Aug 10:03 Users
>
> Now, there's your answer. The user that runs theweb server, _www, has permission to access /Users only becuase of the others permissions ______r-x.
>
> You could change the ownership of /Users to _www but I guess the /Users contains also the home directories of your users so this woldn't be acceptable.
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> Why don't you create a directory directly under / owned by _www and access by _www only, for example
>
> mkdir /repos
> chown _www /repos
> chmod 700 /repos
> cp -R /Users/Svn /repos
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> Check that the permission of /repos/Svn are still correct and then amend your web server configuration file so that the repository points to /repos/Svn and not /Users/Svn

Or consider using the existing web server hierarchy Apple already established. There's already /Library/WebServer/Documents (the document root) and /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables (the cgi-bin); consider storing your repositories in /Library/WebServer/Subversion (there are some Google hits for this so someone else thought of this before).
Received on 2010-09-08 22:49:44 CEST