Re: Newbie confusion with authentication....

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 11:50 am, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> /HTTPD/ is owned by www:www - my web server user. Apache runs
> as www:www
>
> /usr/local/subversion is owned by svn:svn

As Ulrich already pointed out, this will very likely cause problems for you.
Either make the repository/repositories owned by the web server user or add
the web server user to the svn group.

>[Tue Oct 26 19:42:09 2004] [error] [client 62.8.64.108]
>Access denied: 'wash' GET systems:/

Your httpd.conf snippet shows that you've specified the svn access file
as /HTTPD/etc/svn_access. Does this file exist? Who owns it? Could you
show us the contents?

Sean Laurent
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Received on Wed Oct 27 18:29:20 2004