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Re: Secure svnserve?

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:52:44 +0100

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:26:12PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> 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.

Earlier in this thread, I provided a link to the page in our official
documentation which explains how to set this up. Here is the same link again:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svnserve.sshtricks

Stefan
Received on 2016-11-27 18:53:00 CET

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