So i have been using SVN over HTTP (Apache and WebDav) for a while now and i want to ditch apache and replace it with svnserve on my Raspberry Pi running the latest ArchLinux.
I started by enabling the svnserve service:
systemctl enable svnserve
Then, i added the necessary args to the command in the config file under /etc/config.d/svnserve which now contains the following
SVNSERVE_ARGS="-r /media/USB/repositories --config-file /media/USB/svnserve.conf"
SVNSERVE_USER="svn"
For the record /media/USB is a mount of /dev/sda1 which is an NTFS storage device that is always plugged in.
I have about 70 repositories so it would be tedious to use the conf/ directory inside each one of them to control access and from what i understood, i can do the same thing i was doing with DAV on Apache and have one configuration file to rule them all!
So i put under /media/USB all 3 files below:
svnserve.conf
[general]
anon-access = none
auth-access = write
authz-db = subversion.authz
password-db = subversion.passwd
realm = Subversion
subversion.authz
[/]
* = r
dany = rw
subversion.passwd
dany = some password hash
Now when i checkout a URL using svn://TheCorrectIp/RepoName using TortoiseSVN i get the following error:
Error: No access allowed to this repository and i don't even get a prompt to enter a user/pass combination.
Here is what i tried so far with no luck (restarting the service after each trial):
- Clear TortoiseSVN's password cache
- Copy all 3 config files under the repository's
conf/directory (just to see if this was a path issue) - Use absolute and relative paths in authz-db (relative to the repository's conf, as shown in the documentation, and relative to the svnserve.conf file)
- Create a fresh new repository and play with its conf directory alone
While fiddling with the svnserve.conf i notice something strange happening:
- If i comment out authz-db and password-db i still get the same problem
- If i change anon-access to read or write, and comment out everything else i am able to checkout the repository and i don't get asked for any combination. If i leave the anon-access intact and put back either authz-db or password-db i am unable to checkout again
- Stopped the service and ran
svnserve -d --forground -r /media/USB/repositories --config-file /media/USB/svnserve.confto monitor console output while doing a checkout: Nothing shows on the console when i do a checkout.
I would really appreciate any feedback to what i might be doing wrong, thanks!
