Caveat to Adding the Everyone Account in VisualSVN Server


	Caveat to Adding the Everyone Account in VisualSVN Server

travislaborde

12-11-2008 7:13 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/16313729-b40e-44db-b5d0-79e552e517be/3CFB0E74-AC1C-4815-844C-64CE45DE9442/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2008/12/10/caveat-to-adding-the-everyone-account-in-visualsvn-server.aspx" href="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2008/12/10/caveat-to-adding-the-everyone-account-in-visualsvn-server.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">geekswithblogs.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2008/12/10/caveat-to-adding-the-everyone-account-in-visualsvn-server.aspx"><H4><A href="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2008/12/10/caveat-to-adding-the-everyone-account-in-visualsvn-server.aspx" title="Title of this entry." id="viewpost_ascx_TitleUrl">Caveat to Adding the Everyone Account in VisualSVN Server</A></H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2008/12/10/caveat-to-adding-the-everyone-account-in-visualsvn-server.aspx"><P><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><STRONG>You may experience issues after allowing the Everyone special account in VisualSVN Server, such as not being able to commit code.</STRONG></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2008/12/10/caveat-to-adding-the-everyone-account-in-visualsvn-server.aspx">Once I add the <STRONG>Everyone</STRONG> account , it will override any other settings I have for other groups or users (if they inherit their permissions from the parent).  I recently allowed <STRONG>Everyone</STRONG> in a <A target="_blank" href="http://ferventcoder.com/archive/2008/12/06/kansas-city-day-of-dot-net--inversion-of-control.aspx">repository</A> so that people could  download source code.  Then I made updates to the code today and went to check it in and found out I no longer had permissions!  Adding <STRONG>Everyone</STRONG> with <STRONG>Read Only</STRONG> access invalidated my <STRONG>committers</STRONG> group!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2008/12/10/caveat-to-adding-the-everyone-account-in-visualsvn-server.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/geekswithblogs.net/img/19CEBA6A-8AE1-4F6A-87CA-EDF00D8A1D1F" alt="image" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2008/12/10/caveat-to-adding-the-everyone-account-in-visualsvn-server.aspx">So the workaround is to change your other groups <STRONG>AFTER</STRONG> you add the <STRONG>Everyone</STRONG> account.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://geekswithblogs.net/robz/archive/2008/12/10/caveat-to-adding-the-everyone-account-in-visualsvn-server.aspx"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman">By the way, I am on VisualSVN Server 1.6.2, which is the latest release at the time of writing this.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3CFB0E74-AC1C-4815-844C-64CE45DE9442/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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