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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Dave Pawson <da...@gmail.com> on 2007/06/15 07:19:48 UTC

Re: Permissions problem. Fedora. selinux. Solved

In case anyone else suffers from this.
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#reposperms
If you set selinux to run, it needs the chcon command from the faq.

DaveP

On 14/06/07, Dave Pawson <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fedora core 7 install.
> Usage: Small network at home, plus external facing server hosting
> subversion.
>
> Using Apache 2 as the server.
> I've had similar setup working OK on FC5 and Ubuntu.
>
> I'm now getting permissions problems.
>
> From a windows box,
>
> >svn import file http://10.0.0.137/repo -m "test"
> svn: Can't create directory '/subv/db/transactions/0-1.txn': Permission denied.
>
> On the server I've set apache as the owner:group for the /subv directory.
> I *thought* that apache would run the subversion tasks and hence should have
> the appropriate rights?
> I've also set the password file as being owned by apache.
>
> I've never previously had to go to the lengths outlined at
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.multimethod.html
>
> suggestions please?
> I'm a bit lost without my subversion server!
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
>


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