[CentOS] svnserve with encryption on CentOS

[David Mehler]

Hello,

Thanks, and apologies if this is a repeat message.

I'm not really wanting to do an apache setup for this project. What my
structure will be like I think will be /var/svn and under that parent
directory repos# where that equals a separate project.

I've read that svnserve can hook in to sasl for encryption and
authentication, but not a lot of details on it. I'm starting to think
my best method would be svn+ssh, any experiences with this method?

Thanks.
Dave.


On 7/15/11, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/15/2011 9:41 AM, David Mehler wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I've got a CentOS box that i'm wanting to set up svnserve on. I've
>> read much, and am confused. Does svnserve support data encryption and
>> also restricting users from specific repositories?
>>
>> I'm thinking of a single repo structure under /var/svn-repos and I've
>> got two users user1 and user2, each should have access to their own
>> projects in this case user1 can access project1 and user2 can access
>> project2, but neither should be allowed to access the others.
>>
>> My second issue is I don't want to have a access path like
>> /var/svn-repos/project1
>>
>> for instance. I've read the -r root option which I would set to:
>>
>> -r /var/svn-repos
>>
>> would settle this, but am not sure where to set that option so it's picked
>> up.
>
> I don't believe svnserve provides encryption, but it is not the only way
> to remotely access subversion repositories.  You can also use http(s)
> with mod_dav_svn or svn+ssh which the clients understand natively.  You
> can set up path-based authorization but that and authentication will
> depend on which access method(s) you use.
>
> Details here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html
>
> It is somewhat painful to re-arrange repositories/contents after they
> grow large, so unless your projects share components it might be better
> to have separate repositories under the same root directory.
>
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
>
>
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