Weird Subversion permissions issue
linux, svn
Solution
Note, that usually the setGID is set on Subversions repository directory and their child directories:
drwxr-sr-x svnowner svnusers 4096 2008-11-01 .
by chmod 775 you unset this setGID bit and thats why the problems occurred:
The setGID means: if you create a file, the group will be set to svnusers(in my example), not your primary group.
I bet you do no have the SetGID bit set, do you?
However, it is better to change GID of the folders:
chmod g+s <REPO>/dir
it is best you look into a fresh created repository to match the permissions.
Problem
I'm trying to set up SVN on a CentOS 5 system so that several people can use a repository. - I've created the repository at `/var/svnrepository`. - I added a `subversion` user and group, made that the owner of the repository recursively. - I set permissions to 775 recursively. - I ensured that all the system users are in the `subversion` group. The problem I'm running into is that when I do a commit, SVN apparently creates a file called `db/current` and it has my username and group. So say my username is `jimbo`... ``` -rwxrwxr-x 1 jimbo jimbo 11 Dec 2 01:09 current ``` Then after that no one else can check anything out. They get a permission denied error. There's also a similar issue with a file called `db/format`. ``` Can not open file /var/svnrepository/contactdb/trunk/format: Permission denied ``` Has anyone else seen this? Know of a solution? All repository access is through ssh. The weird thing is, I've set up SVN on Linux before and never had this problem. I don't know what I'm doing differently this time.