[HCoop-Discuss] SVN security issues

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2006-11-06 14:43:11 -0800, Karl Chen wrote:
> >>>>> On 2006-11-06 02:45 PST, Marcus Rueckert writes:
> 
>     Marcus> with my proposal the default hook script would be a
>     Marcus> stub that calls the actual hook script with "sudo" so
>     Marcus> the www-data part is pretty trivial.  Shouldnt this
>     Marcus> solve your issue?
> 
> It is a workaround, but it requires that the repository be owned
> by root rather than the user, and for a number of reasons is more
> complicated than adding a configurable exec helper to Subversion.

i would veto. this should not be part of svn. the helper is called sudo.
you just need to configure it.
if you dont like my proposal for the configuration. than come up with
a better one.

    darix

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