Re: [fetchmail-devel] Re: SVN woes :-(

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> My access has been restored yesterday, the cause was that my home
> directory had world writable permissions and for some reason, SSH wasn't
> capable of properly logging this fact, it looked like I didn't know my
> password to the admin, so it took the admin, schily (Jörg Schilling, the
> cdrecord guy) rather long to figure.
>
> I haven't ever changed my home directory's permissions and never used
> the "chmod" command and am using a umask 0002, and it stopped working
> without prior warning, from one second to the next and without my doing
> anything else than svnadmin recover.

I've noticed that the home directories have tended to get other-writable 
permissions on their own way too often, as if one of their scripts has the 
sense of the permissions backwards.

I just checked and it looks fine now on my account, but not for 14 other 
users.  I wonder if their post-recovery scripts mess up.

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