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Re: Problem with authentication

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2004-10-07 10:22:33 CEST

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:06:25 -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman
<sussman@collab.net> wrote:
> >
> > The way the default conf file looks, though, it sure implied (at least
> > to
> > me) that you could put the user=password tags right in there. I would
> > never do that for production, but...
> >
> You must be using an old version of svn. That confusion was fixed a
> while ago:
>
> $ svnadmin create repos
> $ cat repos/conf/svnserve.conf
> ...
> ### The password-db option controls the location of the password
> ### database file. Unless you specify a path starting with a /,
> ### the file's location is relative to the conf directory.
> ### The format of the password database is similar to this file.
> ### It contains one section labelled [users]. The name and
> ### password for each user follow, one account per line. The
> ### format is
> ### USERNAME = PASSWORD
> ...

Ben, last week I suddenly asked myself: why do we still try to put
this into one file? If we were to copy this section to an example
password-db in the conf/ directory, everybody would understand...
Right?

bye,

Erik.

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