On 2022-10-26 07:56:29 -0400, James McCoy wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 02:48:17PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In addition to the hang, which affects > > other applications like emacs, this is potentially a security issue. > > svn should stop going up in the hierarchy once the mount point (or > > home directory?) has been reached, or at least once the owner of the > > directory changes. > > Why? There's nothing that says a working directory can't have > subdirectories owned by different users.
Perhaps, but not by default, for obvious security reasons. Or the condition could be different, e.g. allowing different users as long as one is in the home directory of the user. But svn should make sure that the default is safe. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
