I installed Subversion on my server, and have added these lines to /conf/svnserve.conf in the repo that I have just created:
anon-access = none
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
In the passwd file I have added:
user = pass
However when I go to browse the repo with Tortoise SVN it does not accept my username and password, is there something I am missing? I am using this for the repo url:
svn+ssh://[email protected]/path/to/repo/trunk
What server are you on? Windows or Unix? What client are you on? Windows or Unix?
As others have pointed out, Windows doesn't come with SSH, so you'll have to install it.
By the way, if you're using svn+ssh, you're suppose to use sshd's authorization scheme, and not svnserve's authorization scheme. See the Subversion manual section on Tunneling over SSH.
I've setup ssh+svn access several times. If I remember correctly, you set your svnserver.conf to allow for anon read-write access because your users aren't going to log into Subversion via the svnserve process. They get access to the Subversion repository via the their account in the /etc/passwd file (or whatever a Windows sshd process would use).
Setting up svn+ssh is very tricky, and probably the hardest way to setup Subversion. On a typical Unix server, you make sure that the users don't have shell access. Otherwise, they have direct access to the raw repository files and can even delete them. The trick is that all of these users are in the same Unix group, and that the files in the subversion repository have read/write access to this group. You have to make sure umask is set to 006 and that the files in the repository are set to 770/660.
I usually recommend using Apache httpd, and then using SSL certificates if you have to encrypt the network traffic. Then, you can use LDAP authentication which can talk to YP servers and Window Domain servers. You get the encryption handling of ssh, and the ability to foist Subversion security onto a well established process.
The problem is that Windows doesn't come with a SSH application installed. You will have to install an SSH app (like PuTTY) and set Tortoise SVN to use it.
I found the following blog entry which explains how to do it:
http://www.vectorns.com/blog/11-tortoisesvn-over-ssh-on-windows-via-putty
