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RE: svn Permission Problems

From: Campbell, Matthew A <Matthew.Campbell_at_Relizon.com>
Date: 2004-07-07 21:36:52 CEST

I suspect your repository is owned by root.

ls -l /disk0/SVN

check the ownerships. Your users need to have read access to this area when
using file URLs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cockerham, John (US SSA) [mailto:john.cockerham@baesystems.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:28 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: svn Permission Problems
>
>
> I finally go subversion to checkout a repository, but I can only do it
> as root. When I submit the following command from a common user I get
> the following error:
>
> svn co file://localhost/disk0/SVN
>
> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> svn: Unable to open repository 'file://localhost/disk0/SVN'
> svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem
> /disk0/SVN/db:
> Permission denied
>
> I gather this is a permission problem. Anybody have a clue where to
> start looking? Is it a Berkeley DB problem? Can someone tell me how
> they have there owenership/permissions set up?
>
> Tks
>
>
>
>
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