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Currently, I am not able to commit with the SVN user I added. I tried by manually editing the svnserve.conf and passwd files. I did the following.

  • Added a line, harry = harrysecret, in passwd
  • Uncommented the line password-db = passwd in svnserve.conf

  • Added a system user, harry, with password = harrysecret as follows:-

    useradd harry passwd harry

I am using SVN+SSH protocol and am able to checkout, update but, while committing I am getting the error

Commit failed - Can't create directory 'path/to/repository/db/transactions/1852-1.txn' Permission denied

But, with root user I am able to commit.

I googled to find commands and found the following.

sudo htpasswd -m /etc/subversion/svn-auth-file sally
New password: *******
Re-type new password: *******
Adding password for user sally

(http://www.divvun.no/doc/infra/system/addsvn-users.html)

It did not work for me.

http://wiki.site5.com/SVN/Subversion_(SVN)_Setup_Guide#Setup_a_new_SVN_user_account

    cd ~
    mkdir .ssh
    chmod 700 .ssh
    touch .ssh/authorized_keys
    chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

http://help.joyent.com/index.php?id=55&pg=kb.page

  • cd to the domain’s etc/ directory
  • with any text editor, edit ‘svn-access.conf’ by adding a ‘permission line’ for ‘newuser’ to an existing repository (repositories are created in webmin)
  • add a password for ‘newuser’ to the svn.basic.passwd file with bash$ htpasswd svn.basic.passwd newuser (it will prompt twice for the new password)

But, I do not have svn-access.conf in the /etc directory.

Are there sure shot ways to add users with all permissions? I need to instruct someone to do the same on a remote server.

Peter Mortensen
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  • Wile I will most certainly be unable to help you anyway, you might want to state how you access your repository. Are you using SVN's built-in `svn` protocol server? Or an Apache server? Are you using ssh tunneling?... – sbi Jul 28 '10 at 07:42
  • I am using svn+ssh protocol. I faced the problem after hosting the repository in a remote server. So, I tried to create the same situation by creating the repository in the local system and trying to commit. And I have the same situation - not able to commit in both places – Sandeepan Nath Jul 28 '10 at 07:47
  • Like Vasco said, I verified that adding SVN users explicitly is not needed. Just adding system users, adding them to group and granting 770 permission to the group works. Am I correct? Why is it so? Anybody? – Sandeepan Nath Jul 28 '10 at 09:53

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I never added a user in SVN. Try CHMOD 777 for all rights.

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  • chmod 770 sorry (group write permission), 775 still gives commit error – Sandeepan Nath Jul 28 '10 at 07:56
  • Like Vasco said, I verified that adding SVN users explicitly is not needed. Just adding system users, adding them to group and granting 770 permission to the group works. Am I correct? Why is it so? Anybody? – Sandeepan Nath Jul 28 '10 at 09:52