Re: Update fails but fresh checkout works

On 01.02.2010 15:38, Patter01 wrote:
> Many of my SVN users are having an issue where a SVN update is failing with
> permission denied, but if they do a fresh checkout there is no permissions
> issue. I "think" this is due to a permissions change occurring occasionally
> in the authz file, but I'm not sure.
>
> I've seen at least one case where two users where updating one machine and
> had similar access except one had RO access and one had RW. They could each
> do a checkout (on top of the existing directory), but they both got
> permission denied when doing the update. Neither of them were doing commits,
> just update& checkout. This example may be a different issue than the one
> if the first paragraph, but it is my only hint as to why I'm seeing this
> scenario (update fails, checkout works) with a so many users.
>
> Any ideas on what the update would fail? Is there something within the SVN
> directories that I could do to fix it such that the update would work?

Make sure they have read access to the repository root.

Stefan

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