Subversion how-to for NorStore

NorStore uses the svnserve server solution to connect local svn repositories to the internet.

For every new repository, an svnmerge demon is started as background process on the NorStore node noresg.norstore.uio.no. The svn repository recieves the URL svn://noresg.norstore.uio.no/<repository name>.

To administer svn repositories on NorStore, following prerequisites must be fulfilled:

• you must have a user account at NorStore
• your NorStore user account must be member in the ns2345k group
• your NorStore user account must have access to noresg.norstore.uio.no

Users that fulfill these prerequisites can take local ns2345k repositories stored in (<wiki>/projects/NN2345K/svn</nowiki>) online/offline and have the full flexibility to grant read/write access for NorStore svn repositories to external users (i.e., the normal use of the repositories does not require a NorStore account).

Log on to norstore.uio.no via ssh.

Change directory to /projects/NS2345K/svn.

Create a new svn repository with

svnadmin create testrepo

where testrepo is to be replaced with a name of your choice.

The new repository is now set up in /projects/NS2345K/svn/testrepo.

Edit testrepo/conf/svnserve.conf for general customisation of access rights. The default is read/write access for authenticated users and no access for anonymous.

To limited access to read for authenticated users, change

# auth-access = write

to

auth-access = read  

To grant anonymous read, change

# anon-access = none     

to

anon-access = read

IMPORTANT: Make sure to remove all leading blanks when activating an option.

The users of the repository are defined in testrepo/conf/passwd with user name and password, e.g.

[users]
harry = harryssecret
sally = sallyssecret
guestuser = friendly

Further fine tuning of access rights can be done in testrepo/conf/authz. E.g.,

[/projects/NS2345K/svn/svntestingo]
guestuser = r

limits the access of the user guest-user to read access.