Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-25 Thread Andy Canfield
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 Generally c

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-23 Thread Ryan Schmidt
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 > Generally chown has to be run as root in order t

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Andy Canfield wrote: > I would like to comment here that I've given up the idea of automatically > giving repository access users with an existing login. While it's not a > problem now, it is quite possible that in the future we'll have people with > server logins

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-23 Thread Andy Canfield
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: existing users

2011-07-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/22/2011 1:45 AM, Andy Canfield wrote: > >> Welcome to sys-admin hell, the "documentation is true, but not >> complete" world that I've spent so many years in. The connections >> between different pieces of information that are obvious to someone >> who's been through similar issues in the pas

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-21 Thread Andy Canfield
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 creat

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
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 created an entire > repository directory tree und

RE: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-21 Thread Cooke, Mark
> -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: existing users

2011-07-21 Thread Andy Levy
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:18, Andy Canfield wrote: > > > 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.

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-21 Thread Andy Canfield
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. Diffe

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-21 Thread Andy Levy
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 00:36, Andy Canfield wrote: >>> Alternatively, the SVN protocol will go to the svnserve program. >>> Below the mod_dav_syn layer and the svnserve layer and the repository >>> local >>> layer is the "Subversion Repository". Significantly, this is diagrammed >>> as >>> data,

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-21 Thread Andy Levy
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. Different problems, but problems nonetheless

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-21 Thread Andy Canfield
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

2011-07-20 Thread Andy Canfield
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: existing users

2011-07-20 Thread Andy Levy
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. svn ... > file:///var/svn/RepoName, then wh

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-20 Thread Andy Canfield
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 /v

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-20 Thread David Weintraub
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Andy Canfield 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 subversion server as user named "andy" > password

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-20 Thread Thomas Harold
On 7/17/2011 2:07 AM, Andy Canfield 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 subversion server as user named "andy" password "jackel". This is

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-20 Thread Stefan Sperling
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 /var/svn/RepoName directory? It must > be hidden in svn itself, or p

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-20 Thread Andy Canfield
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 to. Instead, I would like to run the comm

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
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 to. > Instead, I would like to run the command: >    svn ... http://hk.pimco.mobi/svn/RepoNa

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/19/11 9:30 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 to. Instead, I would like to run the command: svn ... http://hk.pimco.mobi/svn/RepoName --username=andy --pas

RE: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-19 Thread Bert Huijben
> -Original Message- > From: Andy Canfield [mailto:andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi] > Sent: woensdag 20 juli 2011 4:31 > To: Nico Kadel-Garcia > Cc: Bob Archer; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Subversion: existing users > > > > On 07/20/2011 05:24 AM, N

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-19 Thread Andy Canfield
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: existing users

2011-07-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
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 subversion >> server as >> user named "and

RE: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Archer
> 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 >

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-17 Thread Andy Levy
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 07:36, Andy Levy wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2011 5:02 AM, "Andy Canfield" 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

Re: Subversion: existing users

2011-07-17 Thread Andy Levy
On Jul 17, 2011 5:02 AM, "Andy Canfield" 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 subversion server as user named "andy" password "jackel".

Subversion: existing users

2011-07-17 Thread Andy Canfield
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