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Re: Secure svnserve?

From: Olaf van der Spek <ml_at_vdspek.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:26:12 +0100

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> wrote:
>> Doesn't svn+ssh require all accounts to have direct and full file
>> access to the entire repo?
>
> The account under which svnserver runs does need such access, but you do
> /not/ have to create one account per user; with a bit of SSH magic, you
> can get all users to use one account, and restrict that so that it can
> only run svnserve (i.e., not a shell session).

Where would svnserve get the right user name from for stuff like commits?
It was my understanding it took the name of the current user.

-- 
Olaf
Received on 2016-11-26 23:26:18 CET

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