How to set permissions in an svn repository?

Question

I created a repository on a network drive with svnadmin create repos.

Is there a way to set user permissions to the repository?

And if that is the case how can those permissions be set?

Aeciospore

It seems to be duplicate of #81861 – Drona

Answer 1

If you need to manage access via svn:// protocol (embedded authorization), all you need to do is to change files in conf folder of your newly created repository:

1. Set up passwd (repos/conf/passwd) in order to define a list of users and passwords
2. Set up authz (repos/conf/authz) in order to define groups and privileges
3. Set up svnserve.conf (repos/conf/svnserve.conf) in order to define general access configuration

Here is simple guide of how to edit and configure access to your repository. Also you can consult official documentation in order to dive into subversion access management.

In case you need to manage access via http:// protocol, you might like to consult official subversion documentation on this matter, it's a bit more complex topic than embedded subversion authorization.

Drona

But doesn't this approach only work if the repository is on a server and not a network drive? – Aeciospore

if you mean file:/// protocol, then you're right, it does not work. Actually, there is no access management for file:/// protocol available. – Drona

Thank you, this answers my question ^^ – Aeciospore

is there a faster way if you have 100 repos to point them all to the same auth and passdb ? i have it running with http:// but can't figure it out with svn:// – Roger

@DanyKhalife You can have a single/global auth and passwd file but the svnserve.conf file in your 100 repos will need to be updated to point at the global auth and passwd file. You'd update authz-db and password-db in the svnserve.conf files. – Sapheaded

thanks but actually the way i ended up doing this is by providing a conf file to svnserve during startup and that conf file specifies the authz-db and password-db files, no need to anything on a per repository basis – Roger