>From http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#readonly
it appears that FSFS does not SEEM to need write access indeed.

On 2/7/06, Stephen A. Cochran Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Emmanuel Blot wrote:
>
> > I think this is because of the underlaying Subversion DB: you need
> > some kind of locks to access the SVN DB even in 'observer' mode. At
> > least, I think it's the case for BDB backends.
> > I might be wrong...
>
> I am about as far as could be from an SVN expert, but just tested
> with one of my repositories (type fsfs) and as some unprivileged
> user, I was able to get a listing using the svn -list command. File
> permissions on the repository are 774 (files) or 775 (folders).
>
> I'd love to be able to turn off write permission to the repository
> for the web server process. Would be a huge security gain since the
> repository should only be readable through trac anyway.
>
> Steve
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