[fetchmail-devel] Re: FYI: Changes in SVN since 6.2.9-rc9

[Sunil S. <sh...@bo...>]

Quoting from Matthias Andree's mail on Wed, Nov 23, 2005:
> > It might be better to allow anonymous HTTP read-only access to trunk
> > and to a few select tags (like the release tags). Access to the
> > remaining tags, branches, as well as commits to the full tree via HTTP
> > can then be stopped.
> >
> > Note that the svn+ssh protocol does not allow anonymous read-only
> > access as it requires a valid login account on the system.
> 
> Can the server side of subversion be configured to set particular users
> to "read-only"? If so, I see no problem with creating a read-only user
> named "anonsvn" or similar.

The user "anonsvn" will be a valid login account with a shell access.
Also, the repository has to be writable by "anonsvn" even for a
readonly checkout. So, it is possible to just:

$ ssh -l anonsvn decoy.wox.org
$ rm -rf /path/to/repository/of/fetchmail

Of course, a restricted shell along with a limited set of commands
(like svnserve) in PATH may be more safer. But, it would be better to
avoid this completely.

-- 
Sunil Shetye.