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RE: svn 1.5.4 server: some people cannot commit - auth error.

From: Bicking, David (HHoldings, IT) <David.Bicking_at_thehartford.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:28:41 -0500

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Archer [mailto:Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com]

>I'm not sure what "Server 3000" is... perhaps you are working
>way in the future. Did you perhaps mean Win Server 2003?

Yes. And I confirmed that it is installed on that version of Windows.

>
>If so, I haven't seen this. Have you verified that the account
>which svnserve service is running as has full permissions to
>the repository folder. Also, have you verified your
>compatriots are using the svn:// protocol and NOT the file:///
>protocol?

File access is not allowed, this is svn://.

I just learned that the answer to the problem, which has me scratching
my head, is to change all the repository section headings in authz to
lowercase. I don't know why that did the trick.

>BOb
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bicking, David (HHoldings, IT)
>[mailto:David.Bicking_at_thehartford.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:42 AM
>To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
>Subject: svn 1.5.4 server: some people cannot commit - auth error.
>
>Hello,
>
>We're installing svn 1.5.4 on a new server, migrating 1.4.6
>repositories into it, and accessing it via svnserve as a
>windows service. I don't know the version of Windows on that
>box, but it is either XP Pro or Server 3000.
>
>We've observed some odd behavior. When I access the
>repositories, I have no problem at all. When the other two
>people tried access it, they get authorization errors on
>commit, and they do have the same access as I. Have any of
>you observed similar behavior, and found the root cause?
>
>The security is set up for authentication, with an authz file.
> The repositories referenced are set up for "* = rw". I
>defined a single authz file, referenced by all repositories,
>and this configuration works without incident on our current
>"server" (Win XP Pro desktop) and svn 1.4.6.
>
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