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

[Marc Haber]

Package: subversion
Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

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.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.2-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  db4.2-util                 4.2.52-20     Berkeley v4.2 Database Utilities
ii  libapr0                    2.0.55-3      the Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                      2.3.5-8.1     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.2                   4.2.52-20     Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1                  1.95.8-3      XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libldap2                   2.1.30-12     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libneon24                  0.24.7.dfsg-3 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii  libssl0.9.8                0.9.8a-4      SSL shared libraries
ii  libsvn0                    1.2.3dfsg1-2  shared libraries used by Subversio
ii  libxml2                    2.6.22-2      GNOME XML library
ii  patch                      2.5.9-2       Apply a diff file to an original
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.3-8     compression library - runtime

subversion recommends no packages.

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