"Authorization failed" stops me in my tracks

[Janine Sisk <ja...@furfly.net>]

Ok, I'm feeling really stupid about now, but I'm also stuck.

I'm setting up my laptop (OS X) to work on a personal project.   
Thought I would give subversion a try.  So I installed it and created  
my repository.  All seemed fine.  Then I tried to create a directory,  
and I ran into a brick wall;  I kept getting an "Authorization  
failed"  error.  I can't see any reason for this;  I own the  
repository, I own the working directory, I've got admin rights on the  
system... I can't imagine what's failing.  I tried the --username and  
--pasword args, but that didn't help either.

I have googled and read documentation and I can't see any steps I'm  
missing.  I'm using svnserve and it is running (otherwise I wouldn't  
have gotten as far as I did).

Here's a (very shortened) roadmap of my journey...

We start out well:

svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /Users/janine/Repos

But don't get very far:

svn mkdir -m "create trunk dir" svn://localhost/Users/janine/Repos/trunk
svn: Authorization failed

Ok, mkdir's not working that way, let's try it the two-step way:

cd working
svn co svn://localhost/Users/janine/Repos
Checked out revision 0.
cd Repos
svn mkdir trunk
A         trunk
svn commit -m "create trunk dir"
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Authorization failed

Nope.  Ok, let's try something I found in a Linux howto when  
searching for any possible clues to this problem:

cd ..
rm -rf Repos
svn co svn://localhost/Users/janine/Repos
Checked out revision 0.
cd Repos
mkdir trunk
svn import -m "create trunk dir" /Users/janine/working/Repos file:/// 
Users/janine/Repos
Adding         /Users/janine/working/Repos/trunk
Skipped '/Users/janine/working/Repos/.svn'

Committed revision 1.

Hey, it worked!  Ok, now let's import some files and see if we can  
work with them:

cd ..
rm -rf Repos
svn co svn://localhost/Users/janine/Repos
A    Repos/trunk
Checked out revision 1.
cd Repos/trunk
cp -pr ../../../working.tmp/Hello .
svn import -m "initial import" /Users/janine/working/Repos/trunk  
file:///Users/janine/Repos/trunk
Adding         /Users/janine/working/Repos/trunk/Hello
<snip list of files>
Skipped '/Users/janine/working/Repos/trunk/.svn'

Committed revision 2.

So far, so good....

cd ..
rm -rf Repos
svn co svn://localhost/Users/janine/Repos/trunk/Hello
cd Hello/Main.wo
<modify Main.html via Xcode>
svn commit -m "first exercise"
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Authorization failed

Argh!  Now I'm stuck;  there's no workaround for committing as far as  
I know. :)

Any suggestions out there?

thanks,

janine


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Re: "Authorization failed" stops me in my tracks

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

On 3/15/06, Janine Sisk <ja...@furfly.net> wrote:

> One thing still confuses me - why was I able to do an import if I
> didn't have write access???

Because you imported to a file:// URL.  The svnserve.conf file is only
needed when you're using svn:// URLs.

-garrett

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Re: "Authorization failed" stops me in my tracks

[Janine Sisk <ja...@furfly.net>]

Yep, that was it.  I'm amazed that there weren't more posts out there  
about this.  I have two different books on Subversion and although  
they both do talk about this file, neither of them mention it in the  
"getting started" section so I missed it completely.  I guess I must  
be unusually blind.

One thing still confuses me - why was I able to do an import if I  
didn't have write access???

Thanks a lot for your help,

janine

On Mar 15, 2006, at 10:54 PM, Garrett Rooney wrote:

> On 3/15/06, Janine Sisk <ja...@furfly.net> wrote:
>
>> Any suggestions out there?
>
> Look at the conf/svnserve.conf file in your repository, it defaults to
> allowing only read-only access, to get write access you'll either need
> to turn on anonymous writes, like this:
>
> [general]
> anon-access = write
>
> Or you'll have to configure a password database, as described in the
> file's comments.
>
> -garrett
>
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Re: "Authorization failed" stops me in my tracks

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

On 3/15/06, Janine Sisk <ja...@furfly.net> wrote:

> Any suggestions out there?

Look at the conf/svnserve.conf file in your repository, it defaults to
allowing only read-only access, to get write access you'll either need
to turn on anonymous writes, like this:

[general]
anon-access = write

Or you'll have to configure a password database, as described in the
file's comments.

-garrett

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