[SVN-2772] Configure the tunnel command ("svnserve -t") in ~/.subversion/config.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: ---
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: svnserve
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 20/Apr/07 23:02
• Updated: 07/Jun/08 09:55

Description

There should be a way to tell the svn client what command to execute on the 
server.  I suggest that rather than appending "svnserve -t" to the tunnel 
command, ~/.subversion/config should include the remote command in the tunnel's 
spec (although another option is to add a new knob to change "svnserve -t" to 
something else for a particular tunnel spec).  I like the following syntax: 

[tunnels] 
wrapper1 = ssh -s $svnhost svn 
wrapper2 = ssh $svnhost 'sudo -u svn svnserve-wrapper' 
wrapper3 = if [ x$SSH_AUTH_SOCK != x ]; then ssh $svnhost svnserve -t; else rsh 
$host svnserve -t; fi 

You could implement this by simply exporting $svnhost as an environment variable 
and run the command through /bin/sh -c. 

I would also suggest that the wrapper1 example should be the default, since SSH2 
subsystems are much more suited to this than executing a command through a 
shell; however this detail would require adding a line to sshd_config on the 
server:  "Subsystem svn /usr/local/libexec/svnserve", and making -t default 
(since it seems that ssh can't deal with command-line args in the subsystem 
command).

Original issue reported by bilbo1507