codestriker-user

[Codestriker-user] full file view for subversion

[Sean Moss-P. <se...@mo...>]

I've searched this lists archives and googled but can't find out how to 
configure the full file view for a subversion repository. Right now 
when I click on 'Parallel' it opens a new window and just hangs. No 
content is every displayed.

My valid repositories looks as follows:

@valid_repositories =
     (
      'svn:http://<...>/svn/trunk',
      );

Nowhere have I entered a valid user/pass for this repository. I figure 
I need to do this somewhere but I'm not sure where. Does anyone have a 
sample checksetup.pl file they would be willing to email me? There's a 
lot of configuration that looks very specific to CVS. I'm a bit worried 
I'm missing things.

Thanks in advance for the help!

-Sean

Re: [Codestriker-user] full file view for subversion

[David S. <si...@us...>]

Hi Sean,

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:58, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
> I've searched this lists archives and googled but can't find out how to
> configure the full file view for a subversion repository. Right now
> when I click on 'Parallel' it opens a new window and just hangs. No
> content is every displayed.

This might be a permissions issue.  Check your apache error logs to see if 
there is anything helpful in there.  You need to make sure the user 
running apache can execute the svn commands.  

If it is hanging though, its likely the command is prompting for some input 
(username/password), which we obviously can't supply.  Perhaps you can run 
an svn command as the same user that the webserver runs as, so that the 
authentication information is then cached?

> Nowhere have I entered a valid user/pass for this repository. I figure
> I need to do this somewhere but I'm not sure where. Does anyone have a
> sample checksetup.pl file they would be willing to email me? There's a

Basically, the string after "svn:" in @valid_repositories is what will get 
used in all the svn commands.  So in your case, the parallel link will 
generate a command like:

svn cat --revision 7 http://<...>/svn/trunk/file.c

In my testing, I have only worked on SVN repositories that had access to 
repositories without requiring a password.  If you have authentication on 
your repository, we need to somehow set up the user running Codestriker to 
be able to execute the svn command without any interaction.

I believe there are a number of different ways youi can do authentication 
with subversion, but we should be able to set it up so that a password 
entry is not required.  I believe this information is cached after doing 
an initial login, or the other option is to use the svn server + ssh.

Having said all that, I am not an expert in Subversion.  Someone else on 
this list may have some better ideas here, on how this is done.

I'll update the manual once we get this sorted out.

-- 
Cheers,
David

Re: [Codestriker-user] full file view for subversion

[Sean Moss-P. <se...@mo...>]

On Oct 22, 2004, at 4:11 PM, David Sitsky wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:58, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
>> I've searched this lists archives and googled but can't find out how 
>> to
>> configure the full file view for a subversion repository. Right now
>> when I click on 'Parallel' it opens a new window and just hangs. No
>> content is every displayed.
>
> This might be a permissions issue.  Check your apache error logs to 
> see if
> there is anything helpful in there.  You need to make sure the user
> running apache can execute the svn commands.

I have anonymous access disabled. I'm using Basic authentication with 
subversion. I have an "AuthUserFile" that handles all the login 
information. I added wwwrun (the user for apache under SuSE) with no 
password. Things seem to work fine now.

I'd read around on SuSE's (my distro) discussion board and they 
_strongly_ suggest not to change the password for the user that runs 
apache. Actually I think this is not really even a user is the 
technical sense. I can't login as it. Right now it has read access to 
everything.

This is a temporary solution but I would really like to figure out a 
way to use some form of authentication. I could take a look into the 
code this weekend. I might have some free time.

Do you have any ideas off the top of your head?

>
>
> Having said all that, I am not an expert in Subversion.  Someone else 
> on
> this list may have some better ideas here, on how this is done.
>
> I'll update the manual once we get this sorted out.

I would be more than happy to help with this one!

-Sean

Re: [Codestriker-user] full file view for subversion

[David S. <si...@us...>]

Hi Sean,

> I have anonymous access disabled. I'm using Basic authentication with
> subversion. I have an "AuthUserFile" that handles all the login
> information. I added wwwrun (the user for apache under SuSE) with no
> password. Things seem to work fine now.
>
> I'd read around on SuSE's (my distro) discussion board and they
> _strongly_ suggest not to change the password for the user that runs
> apache. Actually I think this is not really even a user is the
> technical sense. I can't login as it. Right now it has read access to
> everything.

You can't log into wwwrun, probably because its shell is set to /bin/false 
in the passwd file.  This is pretty standard practice for these type of 
accounts.

I thought in my brief readings with SVN, once you login to SVN with a 
password-protected account, it caches this information somewhere so you 
don't need to re-enter it each time.  You could change the wwwrun account 
so that its shell is /bin/bash temporarily, log in to SVN, then change it 
back to /bin/bash.

Another solution is to run the svnserve server, and connect to SVN using 
TCP/IP.  I believe you can then connect to it using ssh, so then you can 
do the usual trick of getting the ssh keys setup so that wwwrun is 
properly authenticated with the server, without any interactivity.  People 
do this with remote CVS repositories with ssh.

-- 
Cheers,
David