Linux – Configuring authorization for Subversion svnserve

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I have setup Subversion 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 using apt-get and have successfully created a repository with a project simply named 'data' and have added files using svn import. I have added the following to /etc/subversion/config:

[general]
anon-access = none
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
realm = data

and have created a file /etc/subversion/passwd which contains:

[users]
tim = foo

Running sudo svnserve -d --foreground -r /drobo/repos on the server, from a client I can checkout the project using svn checkout svn://tsunami/data. This all seems to work fine. However when I try to make a commit, I get:

svn commit
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Authorization failed
svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
svn:    '/Users/tim/data/svn-commit.2.tmp'

I've tried explicitly using the svn –username and –password options but same problem. Is there anything else I'm missing that would cause the authentication to fail?

Best Answer

It turns out that the conf file in the repository directory should be edited e.g. if you had a repository named /svn/repos then you would edit /svn/repos/conf/svnserve.conf - rather than /etc/subversion/config...

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