Re: [viewvc-users] ViewVC exception

On 09/27/2012 04:42 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> On 09/27/2012 03:58 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> root@www:~# python
>> Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41)
>> [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> from svn import repos
>>>>> repos.open('/data/bubblestuff/svn')
>> <libsvn.repos.svn_repos_t; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'svn_repos_t
>> *' at 0x7f5263f75ea0> >
>>
>> Seems all good to me.
>>
>> Here I tried as root, but same result running it as www-data
> 
> Hrm.  Well, I must believe that if truly "nothing" changed, there should be
> "no changes" in the observed behavior.  :-)  Unfortunately, I can't think of
> anything besides the sort of obvious stuff to check:
> 
>    - Do the Python bindings work?
>    - Is the repository itself corrupted somehow?
>    - Do the authz rules (within ViewVC's authorizer, if used) permit access?
> 

Just to tie this off:  in private correspondence, Jean-Yves discovered that
a process responsible for generating his authz access file (from an
LDAP-based source) wasn't quite doing what it was supposed to, resulting in
all users being denied access to his repositories via ViewVC.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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