SVN Configuration for authentication using svnserve

[HowardSoper]

Hope someone can help here...

I have SVN installed and working fine through svnserver. I set it up as defaults and everything was fine until we discovered some problems with permissions.

To get round these we ran up svnserver again with default parameters - again all fine but now no one can commit 8^(

OK - opened up the permissions setting anon-access = write - GREAT ! now they can all commit but I've lost the author in the logs 8^((

So. Changed the conf to include the following :

[auth]
store-auth-creds = yes
store-passwords = yes

[general]
anon-access = read
auth-access = write

[users]
password-db = password
realm = Retail2

The password file contains :

[users]
rtopshzs = fred

I have restarted svnserver, removed local .subversion directories to no avail - no one has access or is even ASKED for username/password.

Can someone PLEASE tell me what I am missing here.

We don't really want to set up apache ( i have no idea howto apart from anything else ) and we have no need for any tighter security. Just want multii-user access with an author on the commit

Regards
Howard

[HowardSoper]

OK the readme bitz in the svnserve.conf were not very helpful here.

The comments imply that the conf file should contain :

[auth]
store-auth-creds = yes
store-passwords = yes
[general]
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
[users]
password-db = password
realm = Retail2

This is NOT correct -

REMOVE the [users] from the svnserve.conf and put a full path to the password file :
[auth]
store-auth-creds = yes
store-passwords = yes
[general]
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
password-db = /usr/develop/Retail/RetailRepos/conf/passwordfile
realm = Retail2

And it all works swimingly !

Hope this helps someone