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