Cannot commit to svn - access denied

Question

I am working on a small project with SVN.

I checked out the project:

svn co http://mylocalserver/projectx/ .

I made my changes (updated and added files):

svn add file1.php, file2.php

But then, every time I want to commit my changes using this command:

svn commit -m "added file1.php and file2.php and updated the bug #4123" file1.php file2.php gah.php

I get: Access is denied

What can be the problem?

mylocalserver means your computer? or the svn server in your server? or a www svn server? — Book Of Zeus, Nov 19 '11 at 15:52

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '11 at 16:03

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 is expire or you don't have the full rights to commit.

Maybe these articles will help:

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 19 '11 at 16:02

You should check that

you have permission to write to the repository (ask the repository admin)
you committing using the username which was configured. By default Subversion uses the username you are using when issuing the command, but you can specify a different one with the --username option
```
svn --username mysvnusername --message "added file1.php and file2.php and updated the bug #4123" file1.php file2.php gah.php
```

If you are the repository administrator check the log file of the Subversion Server to see what went wrong

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