I don't know your needs, but have you considered using svn+ssh instead? This transfers authentication over to ssh, which simplifies things quite a bit. Since all it is doing it making a tunnel and then calling svnserve as the user logging in, you can still retain user based permissions.
Matt ---------------------------------------- Matthew Beals Michigan Technological University Department of Atmospheric Sciences 1400 Townsend Drive B019a Fisher Hall Houghton, MI 49931 mjbe...@mtu.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Canfield" <andy.canfi...@pimco.mobi> To: users@subversion.apache.org Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 2:06:21 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Subversion access control We are running svnserve on a Mac OS X. I can not get the subversion server to control access. I executed the server by this command: /usr/bin/svnserve --daemon --root=/var/svn --config-file=/var/svn/config/svnserve.conf As long as file /var/svn/config/svnserve.conf contains the original line: # anon-access = read this command works: svn info svn://localhost/sample Of COURSE I don't want random hackers to have read access to my source code !!!!! As soon as that line is changed to anon-access = none the error message comes back: svn: No access allowed to this repository (By the way, I originally changed the "#" to a space and got an error on that line. Apparently the keyword MUST start in the first column.) I have added this line to 'passwd' - andy = canfield I have added these lines to 'authz' - [/sample] andy = rw The documentation for 'svn' says that if you don't give a user name and password you will be prompted for them. I have never under an circumstances been prompted. Even this command fails with the same error message: svn info --username=andy --password=canfield svn://localhost/sample
