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Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:55 AM, jmarans <jmar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fresh eyes and a night's sleep help.
> The $repo/conf/svnserve.conf file in each repo was wrong.
> I've been creating and deleting repositories too often and must have
> forgotten the conf file settings.
> These are the critical values:
> anon-access = none
> auth-access = write
> password-db = passwd
>
> Thanks for pointing out authorization, in the end it got me thinking about
> the individual repo conf files.
>
> Jeff.
>
> On 22/01/13 05:23 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Jeffrey Marans<jmar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Each repo has it's own passwd file, and the svnserver.conf file only
>>> allows
>>> write access to authenticated users.
>>
>> And you're quite sure that that svnserve.conf or the Apache
>> configurations have not been altered lately?
>>
>>> On 01/22/2013 04:58 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:40 PM, jmarans<jmar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've installed the latest version of subversion on a centOS 6 system
>>>>> and
>>>>> it
>>>>> was working perfectly well.
>>>>> Today the start-commit script stopped getting the userid from the
>>>>> svnserve
>>>>> daemon.
>>>>> I've reinstalled the subversion software with no change in behaviour.
>>>>> The problem is consistent across all 32 repositories on the test
>>>>> system.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've a production svn server running on solaris 10 that doesn't exhibit
>>>>> this
>>>>> behaviour.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like you may have an authentication issue in your Apache or
>>>> svn.conf, one where anonymous users now have write access and are thus
>>>> no longer authenticated.
>>>>
>>>>> Commands issued are of the form
>>>>> svn commit -m 'Bugzilla#18933; testing' --username somename
>>>>> --password
>>>>> somepasswd --no-auth-cache
>>>>>
>>>>> The first arg to start-commit gets through, but not the second.
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jeffrey Marans.
>>>
>>>
>
