Bug#341438: subversion: please add svnserve option to only give read-only access

[Max Bowsher]

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Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: subversion
> Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> for some automatic processes invoked via ssh authentication (with an
> ssh key restricted to svnserve -t in authorized_keys, for example, it
> would be desireable to start up an svnserve process that will refuse
> writing to the repository. This could be implemented by an -r command
> line option, for example.

Uh... an -R (--read-only) option *ALREADY* exists. In fact, it has been
deprecated in favour of a repository's svnserve.conf file.

Please explain why it is desirable to control access through svnserve
invocation, rather than by user identity.

Thanks,
Max.
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