Read only user in Subversion

Question

I am testing SVN user for the read only access: following are is the configuration that I have in apache2 and svn repo conf:

However my test user have read and write access, instead I want read only access.

repo location
/svn/test/

file: /etc/apache2/conf.d/svn.conf

<location /repos>
   DAV svn 
   #svn path
   SVNParentPath /svn/
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "Authorization Realm"
   #password file path
   AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/test.users
   Require valid-user
</location>

authz conf (only one entry) file: /svn/test/conf/authz

[test:/svn/test/]
* = r

also tried: following

[groups]
readonly = user1, user2

[/]
*=r
@readonly=r

also tried: following [groups] readonly = user1, user2

[10.29.3.238:80/repos/test]
*=r

Lazy Badger Lazy Badger · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-01T10:14:00

You have authz-file, but don't use it: you miss at least one directive in SVN-location

AuthzSVNAccessFile /svn/test/conf/authz

You last authz-file is wrongly-formatted: path-section must have format without URL or IP of host, only [repository-name:/path/on/this/repo] ([/]is special case). I.e for [test:/svn/test/] after adding AuthzSVNAccessFile you define folder /svn/test/ in repository test as RO for everybody, second attempt is excessive: * = r will define all repositories RO for everybody, @readonly = r also RO for additional group (which is part of "Everybody" *)

Read only user in Subversion

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