R – is it possible to use one Svn passwd file for multiple repositories to authenticate users of svn service

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well I have several repositories and i want several users to access them using svnserve.exe service.
the problem is that i want to write the user names and passwords only in 1 location.
the Repositories are in the D:\SVN\ path
so lets name them
D:\Svn\Rep1\
D:\Svn\Rep2\ …

well I tried to modify the svnserve.conf file in each of them to point to a single file like D:\Svn\conf.global\passwd using

password-db=D:\Svn\conf.global\passwd

but it didn't work 🙁

any ideas? or I need to do it the stupid way and duplicate the passwd file in each repository?

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You have to use this syntax instead:

password-db = //./D:/Svn/conf.global/passwd

That's the Uniform Naming Convention on Windows to access the local machine (the dot . which could be replaced by a machine name) at its root disk D:, followed by the path - with slashes here. A little tricky at first glance but does the job.

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I always thought you'd need to have at least svnserve.conf inside the conf/ subdirectory of each repository (since SVN wouldn't automatically know to look for it anywhere else). That's the setup I use with my own repositories: each one has its own copy of svnserve.conf, but there's only one global passwd and authz, to which all the svnserve.conf files refer by absolute path.

Access control for multiple projects using SVN

I've successfully used this structure with Subversion 1.4:

Subversion
|-- Config
    |-- a-users
    |-- b-users
|--Repositories
    |-- x-repos
        |-- conf
            |-- svnserve.conf
    |-- y-repos
        |-- conf
            |-- svnserve.conf

... where the svnserve.conf files contained a line like this:

password-db = ../../../Config/a-users

This way I can use one password-db file for any number of repositories or I can have a separate password-db file for each repository.

If you are using Subversion > 1.4, you'll need to to take a look at how configuration has changed in newer versions. One point is that, at least in 1.4, relative paths do work. Hope this helps.

Update: I'm on unix (Mac OS X).

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