Issue was due to an illegal character in the passwd file!! Content by Iyer, Typos by iPhone.
> On Apr 22, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Andreas Stieger <andreas.stie...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hello, > >> On 21/04/15 18:37, Sivaram Iyer wrote: >> We use plan text passwd file for authentication of users on our SVN >> server. This was working fine until few days ago, then I had to add a >> few new users to the system, and during the process I accidentally >> deleted the passwd file, but managed to recreated the file with all the >> users in it. >> >> Post the above change, the users are not able to interact with SVN, not >> able to perform any actions on the SVN servers (like Checkout / Commit >> /etc). I have restarted the svnserve daemon after recreating the passwd >> file, but users get the error: "Unable to connect to repository at URL" >> ... "Authentication Failed". >> >> We directly reach the repository over svn:// protocol, (no http/s), and >> this used to work fine for us, until the above change. >> >> Any help, much appreciated. > > Please subscribe to and contact the users mailing list, see > http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html > > Andreas
