[lug] Subversion user auth question

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 07:19, Hugh Brown wrote:
> If you are still trying to get this working, I'd be willing to go
> through the documentation and try it out myself and see if I run in to
> the same difficulties.

I managed to get it working.  To be honest I have so many things going
on right now I've forgotten what I did.  But if you're curious I'll dig
back into it to refresh my memory. I remember it being something simple.

> Will the users have accounts local to the svnserve machine?

No.  SVN has a simple mechanism for allowing read only and read/write
access to users so they don't need local accounts.  I prefer this
option.  The tree is made read/write to the svnd process owner and it
checks the users svn login id for access restrictions.  The down side is
that the auth system is global - there is no directory level
permissions.  So to separate two projects (such as XNotesPlus and Ximba
Radio on my web site) there are two subversion repositories, one for
each project.  That way XNotesPlus developers are distinct from Ximba
Radio developers.

Thanks for offering to help.  :-)
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Michael J. Hammel                               The Graphics Muse 
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                      http://www.graphics-muse.com
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