how can I set permission for users with multiple repositories each, on svn?

Question

I am using svn and I have this doubt, I install svn server (normal way) and I created the repo with svnadmin create project right now im using linux users to access them with the following protocol

svn+ssh://user@serverip/project

it works fine if I want only one user with one project, if not, i have to create groups, assign the users to the group and give it permission to the folder with a chmod manually

I checked modifying authz and passwd files (on the /config folder) but nothing.

Any idea what would be the right way to set the repositories, users and permissions?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You must read this :

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Trac_with_Apache2_SVN_and_multiple_Repositories

Hope this solve your problem

Answer 2

When doing svn+ssh authentication where each user has their own user account on the server, and you want them all to have read/write access then you will need to:

• Create a group that the users can belong to (svn-groupname)
• chmod -R 770 /var/svn/reponame
• chmod -R g+s /var/svn/reponame
• chgrp -R svn-groupname /var/svn/reponame

I strongly suggest that you formalize this by:

• Naming your repositories in a consistent manner. Such has having all the repositories where the users are part of the same group have a consistent prefix. That lets you apply permissions using wildcards.
• Create a /usr/local/sbin shell script (svn_set_repository_permissions.sh) to do the permission setting. This lets you just run a single script later if the permissions get messed up or you add new repositories.
• Deciding whether you want to use 700 (user-only), 750 (user write, group read), 770 (user and group write), or some other permission set.

If you are doing both svn+ssh authentication plus http authentication, then you'll have to open up the permissions a lot more and use the SVN authorization files instead to restrict users.