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RE: Stupid newbie question

From: John Griffin <John.Griffin_at_pwgsc.gc.ca>
Date: 2004-07-29 22:10:54 CEST

Yay! svn wants to be friends with me :)

Thanks for all your help

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:35 PM
To: John Griffin
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Stupid newbie question

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 14:29, John Griffin wrote:

> [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]

Here's your problem. Read the commented text carefully: you must
specify a 'passwd-db' variable that points to a *separate* file that
contains the [users] section.

(I'm glad we fixed this default svnserve.conf wording in svn 1.1;
you're like the 300th person to blindly uncomment "[users]" in
svnserve.conf. :-( )

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