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RE: user can't do a checkout of newly created repository

From: Larry Johnson <larry.johnson_at_lgjconsulting.com>
Date: 2004-04-13 03:31:38 CEST

I located the permissions problem. It turned out that I didn't have
sufficient write privileges in the /home/abc directory.

Thanks,

Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Johnson [mailto:larry.johnson@lgjconsulting.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 5:33 PM
> To: 'Subversion Users'
> Cc: larry@lgjconsulting.com
> Subject: RE: user can't do a checkout of newly created repository
>
> Do I have to setup anything in the db tables to allow a new user to access
> the repository?
>
> In the documentation online it says
>
> >All of your SSH users need to be able to read and write to the
> repository.
> >Put all the SSH users into a single group. Make the repository wholly
> owned
> >by that group, and set the group permissions to read/write.
>
> Does this mean simply;
>
> $ chgrp -R svngroup repos1
> $ chmod -R g+rw repos1
>
> I have changed the perms to allow access by everyone and still I get the
> Permission denied error as I mentioned in my previous email.
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Johnson [mailto:larry.johnson@lgjconsulting.com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:27 PM
> > To: 'Subversion Users'
> > Cc: larry@lgjconsulting.com
> > Subject: user can't do a checkout of newly created repository
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am a newbie to subversion. I have used cvs for years and now would
> like
> > to
> > use subversion. However, any user other than root and the user who
> > initially
> > created the repository are unable to do a checkout of the newly created
> > repository. Here is the errors I get.
> >
> >
> > $ svn co file:///home/abc/subversion/repository1 testrepo
> > subversion/libsvn_ra_local/ra_plugin.c:161: (apr_err=180001)
> > svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> > subversion/libsvn_ra_local/split_url.c:109: (apr_err=180001)
> > svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///home/abc/subversion/repository1'
> > subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c:1586: (apr_err=13)
> > svn: Can't open file '/home/abc/subversion/repository1/format':
> Permission
> > denied
> >
> > I have read the manual concerning permissions. And I believe I have them
> > all
> > set correctly to give access to multiple developers.
> > Each developer using subversion is a member of the svngroup in
> /etc/group.
> >
> > What am I missing?????
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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