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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:04:33+00:00

I moved a Subversion repository from a Windows box to a UNIX machine. In

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I moved a Subversion repository from a Windows box to a UNIX machine. In both environments I’ve handled authentication through Apache.

On the UNIX box after the move, I could checkout source but received the following error when committing anything:

svn: Can't open file '/home/brianly/svn/test/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied

It seemed to be a UNIX permission issue and the following command resolves the issue:

chmod -R 777 /home/brianly/svn/test

Now, I’ve opened this up to be writable by all users (right?). Is there a security issue with doing this? Should I have changed the owner to be the apache user (daemon) instead? What’s the best practice for setting the file system permissions?

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  1. What you should do is change the directory owner to the apache process user, e.g.

    chown -R apache /home/brianly/svn/test

    You need to run chown as root (directly or through sudo).

    You can see who the user is with (if it’s linux):

    ps -fadeww|grep httpd

    And don’t forget to change it back to 755 or 700 or whatever.

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