I'm new to administrating SVN, but I have read about half (the most relevant sections) of "Version Control with Subversion" from svnbook.red-bean.com. I spent about 3-4 hours Googling this problem, but I found nothing that was able to help me move forward with my new SVN server.
Here's my setup: OpenSUSE Linux 10.3 SVN 1.6.15 (r1038135) Sasl version 2.1.22 by "Cyrus SASL" Here's my configuration (I'm logged in as root for all of this): $ ls -l /svn/repos/conf/ total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1080 2011-02-03 11:08 authz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 309 2011-02-03 11:08 passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2259 2011-02-03 22:36 svnserve.conf $ more /svn/repos/conf/svnserve.conf [general] anon-access = none auth-access = write authz-db = authz realm = NWTechServe [sasl] use-sasl = true min-encryption = 256 max-encryption = 512 $ ls -l /etc/sasl2/ total 16 -rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 2011-02-05 11:04 nwts-db -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47 2011-02-05 11:03 slapd.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102 2011-02-05 11:03 svn.conf $ more /etc/sasl2/slapd.conf (already set up by Sasl) mech_list: gssapi digest-md5 cram-md5 external $ more /etc/sasl2/svn.conf pwcheck_method: auxprop auxprop_plugin: sasldb sasldb_path: /etc/sasl2/nwts-db mech_list: DIGEST-MD5 $ saslpasswd2 -c -f /etc/sasl2/nwts-db -u NWTechServe nicholas [entered password] $ sasldblistusers2 -f /etc/sasl2/nwts-db nicholas@NWTechServe: userPassword $ /etc/init.d/saslauthd start [started] $ testsaslauthd -u nicholas -p [password] 0: NO "authentication failed" $ testsaslauthd -u nicholas -p [password] -r NWTechServe 0: NO "authentication failed" $ testsaslauthd -u nicholas -p [password] -s svn 0: NO "authentication failed" $ testsaslauthd -u nicholas -p [password] -r NWTechServe -s svn 0: NO "authentication failed" $ testsaslauthd -u nicholas -p [password] -f /etc/sasl2/nwts-db connect() : Connection refused 0: $ testsaslauthd -u nicholas -p [password] -r NWTechServe -f /etc/sasl2/nwts-db connect() : Connection refused 0: $testsaslauthd -u nicholas -p [password] -s svn -f /etc/sasl2/nwts-db connect() : Connection refused 0: $testsaslauthd -u nicholas -p [password] -r NWTechServe -s svn -f /etc/sasl2/nwts-db connect() : Connection refused 0: I've also tried running svnserve (as root) and trying to connect but "svn: Could not obtain the list of SASL mechanisms". However, I don't think that result is even valid yet, as I can't even successfully test my Sasl configuration. I'm hoping I'm making an obvious error that someone on this list will see. Any ideas? Thanks! Nick
