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How do I change the default password configuration in Subversion (svnserve)?

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In the [general] section of the svnserve.conf there is a path to the password file. This file should govern the access to the repos that svnserve is currently serving, therefore there should only be one file. The svnbook has more details on svnserve and how to configure it.

Andrew Cox 2010-05-25 14:26:28

Yes, but as far as I can tell, there is a svnserve.conf for each repository. I essentially need access to the template from which svn creates a new repository, so when i create a new repo it is created with the modified version of the file. Does that help, or am I missing something?

evanmcd 2010-05-25 15:41:10

you should only have one instance of svnserve running so you only need one config, not one for each repo. You can then access any repo on your machine by passing the absolute path to it. For example `svn://host.example.com/usr/local/repositories/project1`

Andrew Cox 2010-05-26 07:16:17

OK, not sure if it matters, but I running on Windows Server 2008. I realize that there is only one svnserve instance, but I'm not aware of a global svnserve.conf - there is one for each repo.

evanmcd 2010-05-28 13:31:41

There should be a global config in the `%APPDATA%\Subversion` folder. You can have a system wide one that lives in the inside the common Application Data location. The link http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07.html#svn-ch-7-sect-1 tells you a little more about this.

Andrew Cox 2010-06-01 08:51:30

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