websvn access rights for individual repositories, FML

[mmw]

Hi all,

I'm having a lot of trouble getting websvn to give different SVN repositories different access rights. I would like "myRepo1" to require a username/password, and "myRepo2" to not require any authentication. FYI, I installed websvn using the Debian websvn HowTo article.

1) What is the location of the "svn access file" I should be using? My users connect to svn though SSH - all of us have accounts on my server. Does that mean I should be using /etc/passwd? I tried using "/etc/passwd" in my /etc/websvn/config.php file like so:

$config->useAuthenticationFile('/etc/passwd', '/var/svn-repos/myRepo1');

It complains about "/var/svn-repos/myRepo1" not existing..even though it does, so first of all, why does it not recognize SVN repo names?

Not to worry though, I can force websvn to detect my repository like so:

$config->addRepository('myRepo1', '/var/svn-repos/myRepo1');

But now when I load up websvn in my web browser I notice that there is NO authentication - i.e it never asks for my user/password. If I switch back to $config->parentPath in my config.php file I see the prompt for username/password, but it now requires authentication for BOTH repo1, and repo2...FML

2) Does my /etc/websvn/apache2.conf look OK?

# Configuration for websvn using php4.

Alias /websvn /usr/share/websvn

<Directory /usr/share/websvn>
  DirectoryIndex index.php
  Options FollowSymLinks
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Subversion repository"
  AuthUserFile /etc/passwd
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  <IfModule mod_php4.c>
    php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
    php_flag track_vars On
  </IfModule>
</Directory>

Any help with this would be appreciated. Since websvn doesn't provide any kind of documentation it has been really frustrating trying to troubleshoot this

Thanks,
Mark