Re: Write access to subversion repository

On 20 Jan 2004 09:20:04 -0600, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Also -- and this is *so* unofficial -- I began working on a remote
> Subversion access ViewCVS plugin a while ago.  It ships with ViewCVS,
> but isn't documented.  Basically, if, in your 'svn_roots = ' config
> variable, you specify the *URL* of a Subversion repository (instead of
> a local path), then ViewCVS will actually use the client-side bindings
> to access that repos instead of the direct repository access.  This
> means that you could use, say, svnserve to expose your repository as
> svn://localhost/path/to/repos.  You drop that URL in 'svn_roots = ',
> and now ViewCVS, running as Apache, will access the repository in the
> same way a Subversion command-line client would.  In fact, you could
> even put your repository on a different machine than your ViewCVS
> installation, and totally maximize the security.

This is not enough for me as I don't allow any anonymous access to the
repository. Feature request mode on : could it be possible for a maybe
future release of the unofficial plugin to be able to give a username and
password to viewCvs ?

My final solution is to create a new group, say "svnwrite", add svn and
apache users to this group (svnserve daemon runs as user svn). Put the
repository with write access to this group and remove write access for
others.

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