Problems starting subversion in xinetd as non root user

I have this setup in my xinetd.d directory for subversion

# default: on
# description: The subversion repository daemon
service svn
{
    disable = no
    port = 3690
    socket_type = stream
    protocol = tcp
    wait = no
    user = sbvrsn
    server = /usr/local/bin/svnserve
    server_args = -i -r /usr/local/subversion
}

and the xinetd daemon starts with no errors but when I try to use the
repository via the svn protocol using the command

svn log svn://localhost/projecta/trunk

I get the error message

svn: Malformed network data

If I telnet to the subversion port on the repo server I get this output

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
/bin/bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
( success ( 1 2 ( ANONYMOUS ) ( edit-pipeline ) ) ) Connection closed by
foreign host.

It appears that some how or other the sbvrsn user is tying to use the root
users .bashrc file.

I have experimented by changing the access rights to allow the sbvrsn user to
use the root users script and that allows subversion to work as a non root
user but this is obviously not something I want to do.

Needless to say this setup works fine as the root user and also I have made
the subversion repository owned by the sbvrsn user and all authenticated
users are in the same group as the sbvrsn user.

This is running on a RedHat Enterprse server.

Can anyone help me resolve my last remaining configuration issue?

I accept that it is probably something I have done or not done but I just
cannot see what it is :-)

TIA,
Pep.

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Received on Sun Aug 8 15:55:52 2004