On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 14:36:09 -0700
Joseph Bruni <[email protected]> wrote:
> rep-cache couldn't be owned by root unless svnserve was running as root at
> the time it was last modified. You can change permissions to be correct, but
> there is some reason root was the UID at the time it was created. I'm not
> familiar with doas. I'm guessing it is similar to sudo? Maybe doas changes
> effective UID at odd times?
Thanks for the sanity check, it looks like I might have botched something early
in the repository creation. My bad (It was my first time ;)
To verify (with svnserve running as user _svn):
doas -u _svn svnadmin create /var/svn/project-C
doas -u _svn vi /var/svn/project-C/conf/svnserve.conf
[general]
anon-access = none
auth-access = write
realm = minerva.bohemia.net
[sasl]
use-sasl = true
min-encryption = 128
max-encryption = 256
svn mkdir svn://minerva.bohemia.net/project-C/{trunk,tags,branches}
svn checkout svn://minerva.bohemia.net/project-C
Authentication realm: <svn://minerva.bohemia.net:3690> minerva.bohemia.net
Password for 'hanzer': **********
A project-C/tags
A project-C/trunk
A project-C/branches
Checked out revision 1.
cd project-C/trunk
touch foo
svn add foo
svn commit
Authentication realm: <svn://minerva.bohemia.net:3690> minerva.bohemia.net
Password for 'hanzer': **********
Adding foo
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 2.
ls -la /var/svn/project-C/db
total 72
drwxr-sr-x 6 _svn _svn 512 Apr 10 17:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 _svn _svn 512 Apr 10 17:48 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 2 Apr 10 17:51 current
-r--r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 22 Apr 10 17:48 format
-rw-r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 5 Apr 10 17:48 fs-type
-rw-r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 6838 Apr 10 17:48 fsfs.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 2 Apr 10 17:48 min-unpacked-rev
-rw-r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 3072 Apr 10 17:51 rep-cache.db
drwxr-xr-x 3 _svn _svn 512 Apr 10 17:48 revprops/
drwxr-xr-x 3 _svn _svn 512 Apr 10 17:48 revs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 _svn _svn 512 Apr 10 17:51 transactions/
-rw-r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 2 Apr 10 17:51 txn-current
-rw-r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 0 Apr 10 17:48 txn-current-lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 _svn _svn 512 Apr 10 17:51 txn-protorevs/
-rw-r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 37 Apr 10 17:48 uuid
-rw-r--r-- 1 _svn _svn 0 Apr 10 17:48 write-lock
All is good. Thanks!
BTW - doas is a very simple replacement for sudo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914693
