Configuring the svnserve daemon
Creating the repositories If you have not created any subversion repositories yet, you can create one with svnadmin: # svnadmin create ~/my-repository Tweaking svnserve.conf Open up and edit the svnserve.conf file located in the $HOME/my-repo/conf/ directory. Sample $HOME/my-repo/conf/svnserve.conf [general] # Path to the file containing svn users and passwords. password-db = $HOME/my-repo/conf/passwd # Authentication realm of the repository. Two repositories using the # same password-db should have the same realm. realm = My-test-repository # Deny all anonymous access anon-access = none # Grant authenticated users read and write privileges auth-access = write Setting up password authentication Open up and edit the password-db file (ie. $HOME/my-repo/conf/passwd). A sample entry might look like this: ...