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Caveat to Adding the Everyone Account in VisualSVN Server


You may experience issues after allowing the Everyone special account in VisualSVN Server, such as not being able to commit code.


Once I add the Everyone 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 Everyone in a repository 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 Everyone with Read Only access invalidated my committers group!

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So the workaround is to change your other groups AFTER you add the Everyone account.

By the way, I am on VisualSVN Server 1.6.2, which is the latest release at the time of writing this.