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Re: Can't commit via svnserve - "authorization failed"

From: Hari Kodungallur <hkodungallur_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:08:04 -0700

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Weston C <westonc_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I seem to be having some difficulty getting a remote repository set up with
> svn.
>
> Locally, I can create the repository, check out, and commit just fine.
> However, remote users accessing the thing via svnserve can only check
> out. On a commit operation, they get:
>
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Authorization failed
>
> I've checked permissions on the repository. It's in /var/svn/repos/,
> and the user svn has permissions and ownership of everything from svn
> down.
>
> I've also checked the svnserve.conf file for this repository, and I have:
>
> [general]
> anon-access = read
> auth-access = write
> realm = Friends - Blast

What is the authentication mechanism you are using? password-db or authz?

>
>
> I've also checked to make sure that svnserve is running as the user svn:
>
> > ps aux | grep ^svn
> svn 32727 0.0 0.0 7548 804 ? Ss 12:19 0:00 svnserve
> -d
>
> So, yes, it appears to be.
>
> What else might I be overlooking?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Weston
Received on 2008-05-23 01:08:32 CEST

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