svn on mac access denied

Question

i'm pretty new to mac and i installed svn using homebrew. However whenever i try to run a svn command like checkout or import, it tells me, that permission to this url is denied(even though i know have access, since all works fine under windows) When i enter the command it first asks me for authentication. This at least is working(if i enter a wrong password, it asks again for authentication). Any ideas why it claims that i don't have permission for the repository? I already tried reinstalling svn

Answer 1

Check if access rights for your folder(s) are configured wrong, so that an unknown SID is the owner or has read/write permission but not your user account.

Maybe check the file permissions of your local SVN files and make sure that your current user/your TortoiseSVN process has the necessary access rights to change these files.

If you don't use an LDAP server you have to check this:

In your /path/to/the/project/conf/svnserve.conf check if you have something like:

anon-access = none
auth-access = none

You will have to change to use:

anon-access = none
auth-access = write
password-db = /path/to/passwd

then in your /path/to/the/project/conf/passwd

you can create your users:

user1 = password

If you are using an LDAP server please read these articles:

Maybe your password has expired or you don't have the full rights to commit.

Maybe these articles will help:

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Subversion_Apache_LDAP

http://www.mylinuxtips.info/?p=7

Reference:- Cannot commit to svn - access denied

Hopefully, this will resolve your issue, please reach out in the comment section if further clarification is required.

Thanks

Answer 2

I had same issue in the past while using SVG on Mac OS, what works for me is instead of endpoint url, I tried server IP for example in my case

http://dxbABC01:81/svn/ABC_XYZ_NAME_PRODUCT/

I used IP address in SVN settings, for me I was using webstrom client

http://10.20.44.34:81/svn/ABC_XYZ_NAME_PRODUCT/