G'day John,
The user list is actually supposed to live in a separate file, and
then you point to that file from the svnserve.conf file.
eg.
In "users.conf":
[users]
griffinj = jgriffin
In "svnserve.conf":
### This file controls the configuration of the svnserve daemon, if
you
### use it to allow access to this repository. (If you only allow
### access through http: and/or file: URLs, then this file is
### irrelevant.)
### Visit http://subversion.tigris.org/ for more information.
[general]
### These options control access to the repository for
unauthenticated
### and authenticated users. Valid values are "write", "read",
### and "none". The sample settings below are the defaults.
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
### This option controls the location of the password database.
This
### path may be relative to the conf directory. There is no
default.
### The format of the password database is:
### [users]
### USERNAME = PASSWORD
## password-db = passwd
password-db = users.conf
etc. etc.
Yes the comments in the svnserver.conf file are a tad confusing - I
ran into exactly the same problem the first time I installed
subversion too! ;-)
Cheers,
Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Griffin [mailto:John.Griffin@pwgsc.gc.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 12:29pm
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Stupid newbie question
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am looking into using subversion for our version control
> system. We are replacing RCS. cvs2svn works wonderfully well
> in converting our data over. I can pull over our entire
> development tree with the greatest of ease. However, when I
> go to create a branch I get the following error:
>
> svn: Connection is read-only
>
> I can't seem to get svn to ask me to authenticate. I think it
> might be personal.
>
> Here is my svnserve.conf file:
>
> ### This file controls the configuration of the svnserve
> daemon, if you
> ### use it to allow access to this repository. (If you only allow
> ### access through http: and/or file: URLs, then this file is
> ### irrelevant.)
>
> ### Visit http://subversion.tigris.org/ for more information.
>
> [general]
> ### These options control access to the repository for unauthenticated
> ### and authenticated users. Valid values are "write", "read",
> ### and "none". The sample settings below are the defaults.
> anon-access = read
> auth-access = write
> ### This option controls the location of the password database. This
> ### path may be relative to the conf directory. There is no default.
> ### The format of the password database is:
> [users]
> griffinj = jgriffin
> ### USERNAME = PASSWORD
> ## password-db = passwd
> ### This option specifies the authentication realm of the repository.
> ### If two repositories have the same authentication realm,
> they should
> ### have the same password database, and vice versa. The
> default realm
> ### is the path to the repository, relative to the server's repository
> ### root.
> realm = textbox
>
>
> Note that the testbox is referred to by an IP address.
>
> Any ideas on how I can get svn to ask me who I am?
>
> John
>
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