SVN Commit Error

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I'm trying to allow multiple users to access/commit to my repo and I'm running into permission issues (as expected). I followed the steps in the SVN book and I'm still getting this error:

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Can't create directory '/usr/home/peter/svn/db/transactions/16-1.txn': Permission denied

I've set the SUID bit on the db directory, wrote a wrapper script which sets the umask to 002 then executes the 'svn' command and set group permissions to rwx on all directories in svn/

My Script:

#!/bin/sh
umask 002
/usr/local/bin/svn "$@"

What am I missing? Thanks.

Best Answer

Whatever user/group your svn server process runs as needs to have rwx permissions on everything in the /usr/home/peter/svn directory. So if your svn server runs as the svn user/svn group, you need to run:

chgrp -R svn /usr/home/peter/svn; chmod -R g+rwx /usr/home/peter/svn

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check under which user svnserve runs

ps faux|grep svnserve

and then change ownership of subversion repository directory [ not your local copy of it! ] so it's owned by user you found out in fist step

chown user: -R /some/path/to/svn/repo

btw - i do suggest you make your repository available via http / libapache2-svn. you'll gain more standardized access method and ability to have fine-grained access control. if you go that way - change ownership of the repository to www-data [ or other user under which apache runs ].

Svn – Subversion permissions problem

I have almost the same setup and to make this work for all the application developers I used the following permissions

drwxr-xr-x 7 www-data www-data

my www-data user/group = your apache user/group

I also added the applications developers to the group www-data.

By the way, this is in my apache conf file (this keeps things more secure):

  <Location /somesite>
     DAV svn
     SVNParentPath /home/www/svn/somesite
     SVNListParentPath On
     AuthType Basic
     AuthName "Subversion Repository"
     AuthUserFile /home/www/svn/.htpasswd
     <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require valid-user               
     </Limit>
  </Location>

Test first that you can commit locally on your server and then remotely.

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