Are you aware of the svnauthz-validate utility? (Try 'make
svnauthz-validate' in a Subversion source tree)
Daniel creo Haslinger wrote on Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:49:21 +0100:
> Hey there,
>
> I'm here to ask you if this the following is intended behaviour
> and - if it really IS - if one should consider to think over it
> again. I'm not sure if this should go to dev@, but I decided to
> start at users@ first ;-)
>
> We're serving a medium sized Subversion userbase ( ~ 400 users ),
> repositories are of course maintained by the users themselves and
> of course they are managing access permissions on their own.
>
> Every now and then it happens that a user renders a repository
> unusable by doing misconfiguration on their .control as e.g.:
>
>
> [repo-x:/project-y]
> johndoe = rw
> janedoe = rw
> r = *
>
>
> Of course the last line is incorrect since it should have been
> * = r instead of r = *.
>
> From our point of view, subversion should of course send a warning
> to the logs that this line is erronous - and it actually does that,
> but as soon as it trips over this line it discards the whole
> .control and ignores it.
>
> There are often over 20 to 50 users on a repo that are relying
> on the SVN and just by this simple mistake the whole repo goes down.
>
> It it _really_ necessary to discard a whole repo config instead of
> discarding the corrupt line?
>
>
>
> Thanks for any hint or advice,
>
>
> creo
Received on 2011-02-20 19:14:37 CET