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Re: After upgrading subversion refuses to authenticate with server

From: Stephen Butler <sbutler_at_elego.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:16:11 +0100

On Jan 12, 2012, at 4:47 , Aaron Williams wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently upgraded OpenSUSE from 11.4 to 12.1 and now I am no longer able to
> commit changes to our subversion tree.
>
> It requires authentication and the username is different than my Linux account
> name.
>
> OpenSUSE 12.1 includes Subversion 1.6.17 though I have also compiled 1.7.2
> with debugging information enabled to try as well.
>
> With a fresh checkout from our repository with a minor change in one of the
> files I get the following when I attempt to check in:
>
> % svn commit --no-auth-cache --username awilliams --password xxxxx -m "Made
> text area so it can be overridden" include/configs/octeon_common.h
> subversion/svn/commit-cmd.c:181: (apr_err=170001)
> subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:851: (apr_err=170001)
> subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:851: (apr_err=170001)
> svn: E170001: Commit failed (details follow):
> subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c:994: (apr_err=170001)
> subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c:994: (apr_err=170001)
> subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c:244: (apr_err=170001)
> subversion/svnserve/serve.c:444: (apr_err=170001)
> svn: E170001: Authorization failed
>

What does the server log say? For security reasons, the client doesn't
receive detailed information in this case.

Someone might need to configure svnserve to run with the '--log-file' option.

Is SASL authentication in use?

Steve

>
> % svn info
> Path: .
> Working Copy Root Path: /home/aaronw/projects/tot/sdk
> URL: svn://xxxx/svn/xxxxxxx/sdk-base/trunk/xxx/xxxxx/xxxxxx
> Repository Root: svn://xxxx/svn/xxxxxx
> Repository UUID: c83883e8-9f28-0410-baf1-f2025811e16a
> Revision: 68777
> Node Kind: directory
> Schedule: normal
> Last Changed Author: xxxxxx
> Last Changed Rev: 68774
> Last Changed Date: 2012-01-06 18:10:54 -0800 (Fri, 06 Jan 2012)
>
> I am not sure what version of Subversion is running on the server since I do
> not maintain it. OpenSUSE 11.4 also used Subversion 1.6.17 as well so I do not
> know what changed there.
>
> -Aaron
>
> --
> Aaron Williams <Aaron.Williams_at_cavium.com>
> (408) 943-7198
>
Received on 2012-01-12 09:17:35 CET

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