required group permissions

[Kaleb Pederson <kp...@mail.ewu.edu>]

Is it a bug or a feature that subversion requires that the user ownership be 
present on the *local* copy of the repository?

I have a checkout where I have full write permissions as a member of a group, 
but of which I don't have ownership.  Currently, svn won't allow me to 
perform an update nor commit, for the same reason: 'operation not permitted.'

Permissions and evidence of my group membership as as follows: 

// logged in as kibab
kibab@myhost Stylesheets $ svn update
svn: Can't set file '.svn/entries' read-write: Operation not permitted
kibab@myhost Stylesheets $ ls -ald .svn
drwxrwxr-x  7 root web_users 328 Apr 20 09:55 .svn
kibab@myhost Stylesheets $ ls -ald .svn/*
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     web_users      118 Apr  2 11:43 .svn/README.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     web_users       93 Apr  7 16:39 .svn/dir-wcprops
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     web_users        0 Apr  2 11:43 .svn/empty-file
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     web_users     4533 Apr  8 10:02 .svn/entries
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     web_users        2 Apr  2 11:43 .svn/format
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     web_users      720 Apr 13 11:56 .svn/prop-base
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     web_users      720 Apr 13 11:56 .svn/props
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     web_users      720 Apr  9 16:39 .svn/text-base
drwxrwxr-x    6 root     web_users      184 Apr 20 09:46 .svn/tmp
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     web_users      720 Apr  9 16:39 .svn/wcprops
kibab@myhost Stylesheets $ groups kibab
[snip] web_users cvs_users cms_admins kibab

As you can see, I am a member of the web_users group and the web_users group 
has full write permissions on both directories and files.

Thanks for the help.

--Kaleb

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Re: required group permissions

[John Peacock <jp...@rowman.com>]

Kaleb Pederson wrote:

> Is it a bug or a feature that subversion requires that the user ownership be 
> present on the *local* copy of the repository?

Update to 1.0.3 to fix this (and a serious security fix).

John

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