----- Original Message -----
From: "Gingko" <from_tigris_at_nospam.homelinux.org>
To: "Subversion User List" <users_at_subversion.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:39 PM
Subject: svnserve : anonymous access not working
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with svnserve :
>
> I want to configure it for allowing anonymous users to read it, but this
> don't work :
> if I checkout (using TortoiseSVN), I am always asked to supply my
> password.
>
> If I do it, the checkout works fine.
>
> Otherwise I cannot checkout.
>
> And if I click "OK" (in the TortoiseSVN authentication dialog) without
> giving any authentication (leaving all fields empty), I get the following
> message :
>
> SASL(-1): generic failure: Unable to find a callback: 2
>
> svnserve (from Subversion 1.6.12) runs on a Linux server with Debian lenny
> 5.0 (64 bit edition).
>
> The "svnserve.conf" file for that repository contains the following :
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [general]
> anon-access = read
> auth-access = write
> realm = Référentiel Pouchin TV Mod
>
> [sasl]
> use-sasl = true
> min-encryption = 128
> max-encryption = 256
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> For SASL, I have also a "svn.conf" file in the "/etc/" directory,
> containing the
> following :
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> pwcheck_method: auxprop
> auxprop_plugin: sasldb
> sasldb_path: /var/lib/svn/sasldb
> mech_list: DIGEST-MD5
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Note that there is also an Apache access, running concurrently, which
> works
> fine for anonymous reading. But I also want this anonymous access on
> svnserve.
>
> svnserve is configured for logging all accesses, but the log doesn't
> record
> anything during theses failing anonymous accesses.
>
> svnserve is launched through the "inetd.conf" file, and the corresponding
> line is :
>
> svn stream tcp nowait
> www-data
> /usr/bin/svnserve svnserve -i --log-file /var/log/svnserve.log -r
> /var/lib/svn
>
> I don't understand why it doesn't work.
>
> Isn't it enough to set "anon-access = read" for allowing anonymous reading
> access ?
> What am I doing wrong ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gingko
Hello again,
While searching on the web, I found a one year old message thread from this
very same list describing, on its very last message, a case that looks like
my one.
Unfortunately, the question has never been answered (maybe because not
clearly asked, or maybe because the message was sent just before Subversion
moved from Tigris to Apache?).
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-11/0313.shtml
Please, could you confirm that it is really possible to use svnserve with
SASL (for writing), AND allowing anonymous read access at once?
Gingko
Received on 2010-11-10 21:05:36 CET