kraymer wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:04:53 -0500, Jim Pingle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thomas Bruederli wrote:
>>> Please let me know what you think of it and what's not working
>>> correctly. Thanks!
>> This may be partly my ignorance of svn commands showing, but is there any
>> way to prevent the 'installer' folder from coming back every time you run
>> "svn update"?
> 
> You could change ownership to root, group to www-data (apache), then chmod
> 700. svn update works and the folder is not visible nor accessible for the
> web server. IMO this is protection enough. After all, you trust the web
> server to protect your config file too.

Someone else had mentioned making it unreadable by the web server, and I 
think that may be the route I go with. The same trick could also be used for 
the .svn directories, even if they are protected by Apache's access 
controls, a little extra security doesn't hurt in this case.

> For the rest of the discussion, roundcube could also add a login for the
> installer. Another great project, "gallery" (gallery.menalto.com), does
> this for their updater script (run after svn updates) and it works pretty
> well (of course, you can still just delete/move the folder..).

There are a few other projects that go this route, such as eGroupWare. The 
main problem with that route on RoundCube is how you set the password in the 
first place. RoundCube doesn't have its own internal database of usernames 
and passwords like Gallery or other projects, or a mechanism by which to 
designate any certain login an administrator. It could be solved or worked 
around, but it could end up making the installation more complex.

Jim
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