On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 15:46, yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>You should stop doing so immediately and set up a proper server. Any user >>>with direct file:-protocol access to the repository can access any part of it >>>(bypassing any path-based security you've put in place) and can even delete >>>the entire repository (accidentally or intentionally). >> >> What you are describing is considered a feature in our environment. >> Anyone with file system access on the server has utilmate trust. If >> you wish to lecture me, please mail me directly. If you wish to answer >> the original topic, then email the list. >> > > It's not a lecture. Your original request runs counter to all best > practices of a multi-user Subversion repository. It may be a "feature" > of your environment but that "feature" will result in a lot of pain & > suffering at some point. At which point the loss of data will be > blamed on a deficiency in Subversion by someone in your organization, > when in fact the fault lies with how the environment is configured.
Additionally, the Subversion development team has announced file:// protocol should not be considered for production environments. There are other protocols for such situations. Bye, Erik.
