up until now i have been using svn protocol to access my subversion repos.
Of course if you are inside a corporate/home network then this doesnt pose a big issue, as the traffic for svn protocol is transmitted in the open.
When doing from the internet, then all the traffic is in plain text and visibile.
So ssh+svn approach to encrypt the traffic, by using the standard ssh login and encryption. This changes the way you access the repo, as it is no longer via the subversion user, but instead via the ssh user connecting.
A simplet modification to the group file and add the user into the same group as svn user allows for the permissions to work again and commit/write access is granted.
And then only thing needed now, when i get home is to block the svn port, 3690, from the outside and this way only ssh+svn will be allowed as it will use the standard ssh port 22.
Posted on: January 29, 2023 at 11:42