----- Original Message -----
From: "Gingko" <from_tig...@nospam.homelinux.org>
To: "Subversion User List" <users@subversion.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:39 PM
Subject: svnserve : anonymous access not working
Hello,
I have a problem with svnserve :
I want to configure it for allowing anonymous users to read it, but this
don't work :
if I checkout (using TortoiseSVN), I am always asked to supply my
password.
If I do it, the checkout works fine.
Otherwise I cannot checkout.
And if I click "OK" (in the TortoiseSVN authentication dialog) without
giving any authentication (leaving all fields empty), I get the following
message :
SASL(-1): generic failure: Unable to find a callback: 2
svnserve (from Subversion 1.6.12) runs on a Linux server with Debian lenny
5.0 (64 bit edition).
The "svnserve.conf" file for that repository contains the following :
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[general]
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
realm = Référentiel Pouchin TV Mod
[sasl]
use-sasl = true
min-encryption = 128
max-encryption = 256
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For SASL, I have also a "svn.conf" file in the "/etc/" directory,
containing the
following :
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pwcheck_method: auxprop
auxprop_plugin: sasldb
sasldb_path: /var/lib/svn/sasldb
mech_list: DIGEST-MD5
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Note that there is also an Apache access, running concurrently, which
works
fine for anonymous reading. But I also want this anonymous access on
svnserve.
svnserve is configured for logging all accesses, but the log doesn't
record
anything during theses failing anonymous accesses.
svnserve is launched through the "inetd.conf" file, and the corresponding
line is :
svn stream tcp nowait
www-data
/usr/bin/svnserve svnserve -i --log-file /var/log/svnserve.log -r
/var/lib/svn
I don't understand why it doesn't work.
Isn't it enough to set "anon-access = read" for allowing anonymous reading
access ?
What am I doing wrong ?
Best regards,
Gingko
Hello again,
While searching on the web, I found a one year old message thread from this
very same list describing, on its very last message, a case that looks like
my one.
Unfortunately, the question has never been answered (maybe because not
clearly asked, or maybe because the message was sent just before Subversion
moved from Tigris to Apache?).
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-11/0313.shtml
Please, could you confirm that it is really possible to use svnserve with
SASL (for writing), AND allowing anonymous read access at once?
Gingko
