Brendan wrote: > What kind of permissions does trac need to access my svn repo? I have > svnserve setup, so ideally I'd like trac to just access it through the > svn client lib. Can it do that yet (trac 0.11)? > > This bug:http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/493 > Seems to suggest trac reads svn repos directory (which is obviously > bad). Is this still true in trac 0.11? > > A comment in that bug discussion seemed to suggest that trac needed > not just read, but *write* access to my svn repo. Is this true? I'm > obviously really nervous giving write access to a program that could > potentially bork my repo. Plus, giving write access to apache seems > like a gaping security hole.
Trac cannot, and likely will never be able to, use the client access layer, it needs the actual repo. You only need to give write access if you are using BDB (related to how BDB locking works). For FSFS, read-only is fine. --Noah
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