Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

On 08/21/2011 10:52 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:03 AM, David Weintraub > wrote: What Subversion does is look at the timestamp of the file and the contents of the .svn directory that contains the file information. If the timestamp ha

Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

On 08/21/2011 06:48 PM, Andy Levy wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 07:21, Andy Canfield wrote: I created a repository and created a subdirectory in it named 'scripts'. In this are a half-dozen Linux shell scripts. Unfortunately, I set the execute flag on only five of them; the

Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

I created a repository and created a subdirectory in it named 'scripts'. In this are a half-dozen Linux shell scripts. Unfortunately, I set the execute flag on only five of them; the sixth was untested as of my first commit so I had never noticed that the execute attribute was unset. [1] I set

Re: Subversion on Drupal

On 08/12/2011 10:48 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Aug 11, 2011, at 21:56, Andy Canfield wrote: My goal in learning Subversion was to put our web site under version control. Now I have my doubts as to whether Subversion can handle it. The web site uses Drupal. And Drupal has the characteristic

Subversion on Drupal

My goal in learning Subversion was to put our web site under version control. Now I have my doubts as to whether Subversion can handle it. The web site uses Drupal. And Drupal has the characteristic that much of the site is contained in a MySQL database. For example, if I install a module and

Re: Subversion: list of respositories

On 07/18/2011 06:27 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Erik Huelsmann wrote: I would think that it looks at SVNParentPath and tries to treat every subdirectory of that as a repository. Not quite. It's not "every subdirectory", it's "every child directory". Â That

Re: Subversion: list of respositories

On 07/18/2011 09:48 AM, Geoff Hoffman wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Andy Canfield mailto:andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi>> wrote: How do you get a list of repositories from svnserver? The only way I can figure out is: *ssh usern...@example.com <mai

Re: SVNParent authz

On 07/29/2011 01:48 PM, Cooke, Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: Andy Canfield [mailto:andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi] Sent: 29 July 2011 05:14 To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: SVNParent authz I am having a problem with AuthzSVNAccessFile. Consider the case where I have two

Re: Worst Error Message?

On 07/30/2011 09:31 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 09:15:18PM +0700, Andy Canfield wrote: I just spent all day working on a bug. I could create a repository, and could do "svn checkout ..." but when I did "svn commit" I got this error message:

Re: disable security hole in svn+ssh?

On 07/29/2011 02:10 PM, Cooke, Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: Andy Canfield [mailto:andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi] Sent: 29 July 2011 02:27 To: Geoff Hoffman Cc: Nico Kadel-Garcia; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: disable security hole in svn+ssh? Apparently, regardless

Worst Error Message?

I just spent all day working on a bug. I could create a repository, and could do "svn checkout ..." but when I did "svn commit" I got this error message: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to MKACTIVITY reque

Access to the SVNParentPath

That's a wonderful thing about computers. Every time I come up with something that is impossible, I figure out a way to do it. My current test repository server is named "athol". But I can not look at "http://athol/svn";; nobody is allowed to see that. But, as of now, if I point my browser to

SVNParent authz

I am having a problem with AuthzSVNAccessFile. Consider the case where I have two repositories, R1 and R2 Some users are authorized to examine R1 by going to http://example.com/svn/R1 Other users are authorized to examine R2 by going to http://example.com/svn/R2 But everyone should be a

Re: disable security hole in svn+ssh?

Thank you very much. On 07/28/2011 09:48 PM, Geoff Hoffman wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Andy Canfield mailto:andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi>> wrote: Hold it right there. You're providing password based repository access via HTTP, not HTTPS? Please r

Re: disable security hole in svn+ssh?

On 07/27/2011 06:47 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Andy Canfield wrote: I was trying to get http, svn, and svn+ssh to work. Dude. Pick one. Getting all three to play nicely together is destablilizing. For me, getting any of the four to work is difficult

Web site: checkout or export?

We're doing a web site. The whole site will be under revision control using Subversion. So there are at least three of these: my working copy, the repository, and the working web site. How do I get a working web site? By export? or by checkout? + After we 'svn checkout', If we need to change

disable security hole in svn+ssh?

I was trying to get http, svn, and svn+ssh to work. HERE IT IS USING HTTP: *svn info http://athol/svn/subdoc Authentication realm: Athol Subversion Repository Password for 'andy': Path: subdoc URL: http://athol/svn/subdoc Repository Root: http://athol/svn/subdoc Repository U

Re: My Backup Script

On 07/27/2011 01:34 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Andy Canfield wrote: For your information, this is my backup script. It produces a zip file that can be tranported to another computer. The zip file unpacks into a repository collection, giving, for each

Re: My Backup Script

On 07/26/2011 04:20 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:33:09PM +0700, Andy Canfield wrote: For your information, this is my backup script. It produces a zip file that can be tranported to another computer. The zip file unpacks into a repository collection, giving, for each

My Backup Script

For your information, this is my backup script. It produces a zip file that can be tranported to another computer. The zip file unpacks into a repository collection, giving, for each repository, a hotcopy of the repository and a dump of the repository. The hotcopy can be reloaded on a computer

Re: Subversion: existing users

On 07/24/2011 03:25 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 23, 2011, at 03:27, Andy Canfield wrote: On 07/21/2011 07:27 PM, Cooke, Mark wrote: I don't use *nix much but shouldn't that be `chown -R ...`? Nope, the format of that command on Linux is chown username.groupname fileselector

Re: svnadmin failure on nearly identical system

On 07/22/2011 10:20 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 21, 2011, at 22:09, Andy Canfield wrote: I have Ubuntu Linux 10.4 installed on my notebook computer named Lenny. I have the same system installed on my desktop computer named Athol (I had a lot of trouble getting that hardware to work). I

Re: Subversion access control

On 07/22/2011 02:39 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 20, 2011, at 23:14, Andy Canfield wrote: I would like to use http/https. I am not supposed to be working on the server, but on my notebook workstation. And svn or svn+ssh require port 3690 to be forwarded by the router, and we don'

Re: Subversion: existing users

On 07/21/2011 07:27 PM, Cooke, Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: Andy Canfield [mailto:andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi] Sent: 21 July 2011 13:19 To: nka...@gmail.com Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Subversion: existing users On 07/21/2011 05:55 PM, Andy Levy wrote

Re: Subversion access control / Linux users etc.

Thank you very much. On 07/22/2011 02:36 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 21, 2011, at 06:54, Andy Canfield wrote: The browser, when pointing to http://localhost/svn/RepoName, gives this answer RepoName - Revision 0: / Powered by Subversion version 1.6.12 (r955767). This is true

Re: Setuid

On 07/22/2011 11:29 PM, David Chapman wrote: On 7/22/2011 8:38 AM, Andy Canfield wrote: Had what seems to be a bright idea. It is a bright idea for a Subversion server on Linux or OS X; AFAIK this idea has no relevance to Windows: Take note of the user and group that Apache runs as. Call

Setuid

Had what seems to be a bright idea. It is a bright idea for a Subversion server on Linux or OS X; AFAIK this idea has no relevance to Windows: Take note of the user and group that Apache runs as. Call this combination APACHE, meaning APACHE_USER and APACHE_GROUP. Whatever mod_dav_svn does to

Limited Access Repository

I changed my repository parent so that it is not readable, not writable, not searchable by anyone except the owner, which is www-data (the user that Apache runs as) - *drwx-- 2 www-data www-data 4096 2011-07-22 15:45 /data/svn* I figure that will keep other users away from the contents.

Re: Subversion: existing users

On 07/21/2011 09:33 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Andy Canfield wrote: ADDENDUM ... I used root to create the /data/svn directory. Then, anticpiating problems, I did a chmod to make it writable to all. Later I ran svnadmin create /data/svn/sample and it

Re: Subversion access control

Thank you very much On 07/20/2011 10:27 PM, Geoff Hoffman wrote: Andy, I thought you were off Apache and onto svnserve. Anyway, I sent you this info last week - maybe you missed it. It is pasted again below. I will grant to you that it is tricky to set up. The david winter blog post below s

Re: svnadmin failure on nearly identical system

On 07/22/2011 10:20 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 21, 2011, at 22:09, Andy Canfield wrote: I have Ubuntu Linux 10.4 installed on my notebook computer named Lenny. I have the same system installed on my desktop computer named Athol (I had a lot of trouble getting that hardware to work). I

svnadmin failure on nearly identical system

I have Ubuntu Linux 10.4 installed on my notebook computer named Lenny. I have the same system installed on my desktop computer named Athol (I had a lot of trouble getting that hardware to work). I have installed the Ubuntu Subversion packages on each; namely subversion libapach

Subversion user problem?

I ran into a problem with a web site I am developing under Drupal; a problem related to user. And I suspect that the same problem arises witn Subversion. On my local copy of that site, sometimes the PHP code creates a directory and puts files into that directory. The directory had standard p

Re: Subversion: existing users

On 07/21/2011 05:55 PM, Andy Levy wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 06:12, Andy Canfield wrote: ADDENDUM ... I used root to create the /data/svn directory. Then, anticpiating problems, I did a chmod to make it writable to all. Giving global write permission will lead to problems as well

Re: Subversion access control / Linux users etc.

More user/command interaction - The commands to create the Subversion Repository Parent directory were *sudo bash mkdir /data/svn chmod a+w /data/svn* This created this directory: *drwxrwxrwx 4 root 4096 2011-07-21 17:36 /data/svn/* I ran this command as user root: *svnadmin

Re: Subversion: existing users

ADDENDUM ... I used root to create the /data/svn directory. Then, anticpiating problems, I did a chmod to make it writable to all. Later I ran svnadmin create /data/svn/sample and it created an entire repository directory tree under /data/svn. I don't remember but I probably ran it as root.

Re: Subversion: existing users

Great... On 07/21/2011 10:01 AM, Andy Levy wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 22:42, Andy Canfield wrote: Thank you very much. On 07/20/2011 05:44 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:22:57PM +0700, Andy Canfield wrote: One quirk is that if he URL specifies direct access, e.t

Re: Subversion access control

Thank you very much. On 07/20/2011 12:19 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Andy Canfield wrote: One thing has hit my mind today that I don't think you realize ... I have never, in my entire life, seen a working Subversion system. Apparently Subversio

Re: Subversion: existing users

Thank you very much. On 07/20/2011 05:44 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:22:57PM +0700, Andy Canfield wrote: One quirk is that if he URL specifies direct access, e.t. svn ... file:///var/svn/RepoName, then where is the code which actually manipulates the contents of the

Re: Subversion: existing users

On 07/20/2011 12:14 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Andy Canfield wrote: For example, I am on a Linux box named Lenny, logged in as 'andy'. I can ssh to hk.pimco.mobi as user 'andy', password 'psuedo'. But I don't want t

Re: Subversion access control

One thing has hit my mind today that I don't think you realize ... *I have never, in my entire life, seen a working Subversion system. * Apparently Subversion, as distributed, doesn't work - the access authentications are deliberately turned off. It would be really neat if somebody had a s

Re: Subversion: existing users

On 07/20/2011 05:24 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Bob Archer wrote: The most obvious authorization scheme is that of the host server; if there is a user named "andy" on that server with a password "jackel" then I would like to simply be able to talk to the sub

Re: Subversion access control

OFF THE SUBJECT OF APACHE, NOW TRYING TO ACCESS SVNSERVE VIA PORT 3690 /var/svn/config/svnserve.conf has been changed from the default to show *anon-access = none password-db = passwd authz-db = authz* The passwd file contains *andy = canfield* The authz file contains: *[/sample] andy = rw

Re: Subversion: via Apache

I have requested our system administrator re-install Apache and all it's mod_dav modules and tell me the distribution versions of everything. After it gets done I can re-test. In the meantime I can hope to get svn talking to svnserve via port 3690. So far failed on permissions, but more testin

Re: Subversion: list of respositories

On 07/18/2011 09:36 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Andy Levy wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 02:06, Andy Canfield wrote: How do you get a list of repositories from svnserver? The only way I can figure out is: ssh usern...@example.com sudo bash

Re: Subversion: list of respositories

On 07/18/2011 09:35 AM, Andy Levy wrote: Please Reply to All to keep discussion on the list. List convention is to bottom-post and quote inline. Please do not top-post. On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 22:29, Andy Canfield wrote: If I set up http://example.com/svn to be a way to use apache to

Re: Subversion: via Apache

On 07/18/2011 09:34 AM, Geoff Hoffman wrote: Test your config with -t Option "-t" on what command line? "-t" for svnserve means "tunnel"; svnadmin and svn have no -t option.

Re: Subversion: via Apache

I removed the block. No, Apache does not function. *telnet hk.pimco.mobi 80 Trying 202.181.201.137... Connected to hk.pimco.mobi. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0* (pressed Enter twice) *Connection closed by foreign host.* In my last message I did not include the Apache version number;

Re: Subversion: via Apache

6 2009 mod_dav_svn.so* I don't know how to get version numbers out of them. On 07/17/2011 06:31 PM, Andy Levy wrote: Resending as I forgot reply all On Jul 17, 2011 7:30 AM, "Andy Levy" <mailto:andy.l...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Jul 17, 2011 5:01 AM, &quo

Subversion: existing users

The most obvious authorization scheme is that of the host server; if there is a user named "andy" on that server with a password "jackel" then I would like to simply be able to talk to the subversion server as user named "andy" password "jackel". This is how ssh and sftp work. But apparently su

Subversion: Access control management

The file /var/svn/sample/README.txt says *This is a Subversion repository; use the 'svnadmin' tool to examine it. Do not add, delete, or modify files here unless you know how to avoid corrupting the repository.* but as far as I know there are no svnadmin tools to control access to th

Subversion: via Apache

WHOA! Near as I can tell, if you have an apache2 server offering web sites http://example.com/alpha http://example.com/beta http://example.com/gamma and you configure the apache2 web server for Subversion support, suddenly you can no longer access alpha and beta and gamma. DOES SUBVERSION TAKE O

Subversion: list of respositories

How do you get a list of repositories from svnserver? The only way I can figure out is: *ssh usern...@example.com sudo bash ls -ld /var/svn/** And, of course, this makes an assumption about where on the server the repositories are located. There 'ought' to be an easier way.

Subversion access control

ed to this repository* (By the way, I originally changed the "#" to a space and got an error on that line. Apparently the keyword MUST start in the first column.) I have added this line to 'passwd' - *andy = canfield* I have added these lines to 'authz'