Svn

Svn
Maintainer:	Sam Payson
Hostname:	svn.cslabs.clarkson.edu
Operating system:	Ubuntu Gutsy
LDAP Support:	No
Development Status:	Halted
Status:	deprecated

Svn was the virtual machine running the COSI subversion server.

Installed Packages

• Those included in a Gutsy Debootstrap
• emacs22-nox
• nano
• openssh-server
• subversion
• subversion-tools
• apache2
• libapache2-svn
• sendmail

Configuration Files

Apache 2

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

<Location /svn>
  DAV svn
  SVNParentPath /var/svn/repos

  # our access control policy
  AuthzSVNAccessFile /var/svn/conf/authz

  # try anonymous access first, resort to real
  # authentication if necessary.
  Satisfy Any
  Require valid-user
  # how to authenticate a user
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Subversion repository"
  AuthUserFile /var/svn/conf/passwd
</Location>

Subversion

Directory Structure

   |var
   |-svn
   |---conf
   |---repos
   |-----REPO_1
   |-------dav
   |-------db
   |---------revprops
   |---------revs
   |---------transactions
   |-------hooks
   |-------locks
   |-----REPO_2
   |-------dav
   |-------db
   |---------revprops
   |---------revs
   |---------transactions
   |-------hooks
   |-------locks
   |-----REPO_3 ...

Authentication Files

/var/svn/conf/authz

[REPO:/path]
user = {none | r | rw}
@group = {none | r | rw}

[groups]
group = user1,user2

/var/svn/conf/passwd

An htpasswd file containing the user/password combinations for the users referenced in the above file. To allow for anonymous checkout, add the permission line * = r to a repository.

Common Tasks

Adding a User

# htpasswd -m /var/svn/conf/passwd <username>
New password: <password>
Re-type new password: <password>
Adding password for user <username>

Adding a Repository

# svnadmin create /var/svn/repos/<reponame>
# chown -R www-data /var/svn/repos/<reponame>

Grant access to a User for a Repository

• Edit the /var/svn/conf/authz file