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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by "Henderson, Michael D" <mi...@lmco.com> on 2004/04/16 19:23:34 UTC

[PATCH] - reword confusing svnserve.conf default template (Issue 1835)

Log Message:
Fix Issue #1835: confusing svnserve.conf default template.

* subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c
  (create_conf) : Reword description of password database.    

Index: subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c
===================================================================
--- subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c     (revision 3)
+++ subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c     (working copy)
@@ -798,16 +798,26 @@
       APR_EOL_STR
       "# auth-access = write"
       APR_EOL_STR
-      "### This option controls the location of the password database.
This"
+      "### The password-db option controls the location of the
password"
       APR_EOL_STR
-      "### path may be relative to the conf directory.  There is no
default."
+      "### database file.  Unless you specify a path starting with a
/,"
       APR_EOL_STR
-      "### The format of the password database is:"
+      "### the file's location is relative to the conf directory."
       APR_EOL_STR
-      "### [users]"
+      "### The format of the password database is similar to this
file."
       APR_EOL_STR
-      "### USERNAME = PASSWORD"
+      "### It contains one section labelled [users]. The name and"
       APR_EOL_STR
+      "### password for each user follow, one account per line. The"
+      APR_EOL_STR
+      "### format is"
+      APR_EOL_STR
+      "###    USERNAME = PASSWORD"
+      APR_EOL_STR
+      "### Please note that both the user name and password are case"
+      APR_EOL_STR
+      "### sensitive. There is no default for the password file."
+      APR_EOL_STR
       "# password-db = passwd"
       APR_EOL_STR
       "### This option specifies the authentication realm of the
repository."

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Re: [PATCH] - reword confusing svnserve.conf default template (Issue 1835)

Posted by John Peacock <jp...@rowman.com>.
Henderson, Michael D wrote:

> Log Message:
> Fix Issue #1835: confusing svnserve.conf default template.
> 
> * subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c
>   (create_conf) : Reword description of password database.    
> 
> Index: subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c
> ===================================================================
> --- subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c     (revision 3)
> +++ subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c     (working copy)
> @@ -798,16 +798,26 @@
>        APR_EOL_STR
>        "# auth-access = write"
>        APR_EOL_STR
> -      "### This option controls the location of the password database.
> This"
> +      "### The password-db option controls the location of the
> password"

Your MTA wraps the patch, so it's not easy to apply to the files.  Try attaching 
it instead...

John

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