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Asked: 2026-05-16T19:45:25+00:00

How should I administrate users and groups with the repositories? Until now users can

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How should I administrate users and groups with the repositories?

Until now users can access the server repositories through http. The tag configuration it inside /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

<Location /srv/svn/>
DAV svn
SVNPath /srv/svn/projecX
#SVNParentPath /srv/svn #if I have more the one repository inside the folder
AuthType Basic
AuthName ”ProjectX”
AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd
Require valid-user
</Location>

My doubts:

  1. For each repository should I have a passwd file containing all users and pass?
  2. When is more appropriated to use SVNPath or SVNParentPath ?
  3. How do I manage groups? Until know I know how to work with individuals but not with groups in a more optimized way.
  4. (EDIT) Users and Group repositories control should be always made through apache2 ?

I’m using Ubuntu server edition for the server repositories.
Thanks for the attention3.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can manage groups and group access to paths in the repository in the auth file. You can share the passwd file between repositories by creating a symlink. Usually in an entreprise context an ActiveDirectory or alike would be better but rather tedious to bind into svn. We do the authentication at Apache level (mod_ldap/mod_svn_ldap) and the rights checks in svn with a global auth file (to ease group definition and reuse). Setting up LDAP is not much of fun thought…

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