How to install subversion (SVN) and create users

Consider "TIMS" as repository

• Online howto available at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn-book.html
• apt-get install subversion (install svn repositary)
  
• "svn init script" to automatically start svn at boot time (Note: this script needs to be added separately later)
• The location of subversion repositories is /opt/svnrepos/
• For example, for TIMS repository, go to the TIMS project svn directory /opt/svnrepos/TIMS/conf/
• And configure the file /opt/svnrepos/TIMS/conf/svnserve.conf first
• An example of svnserve.conf file

anon-access = none
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
authz-db = authz
realm = TIMS Repository
 

• To create a user, edit the files authz and passwd located at /opt/svnrepos/TIMS/conf in the correct format to create a user and assign password respectively
• To create a repository, issue the command "svnadmin create /opt/svnrepos/<project-name>"
• For example, to access the TIMS repository from the clients, the following command should be run on the terminal:

svn co svn://192.168.10.11/TIMS TIMS

Here is a "svn init script"

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/svnserve

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 DAEMON=/usr/bin/svnserve
NAME=svnserve
DESC="SVN Repository Server Daemon" 
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
OPTIONS="-d -r /opt/svnrepos" 
# Get lsb functions
#. /lib/lsb/init-functions
 . /etc/default/rcS
start() {
       echo "Starting $DESC... " 
       #       echo "Starting $DESC: " 
       if ! start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
>/dev/null 2>&1; then
                status=$?
               echo $status
               return $status
       fi
       log_end_msg 0
       return 0
}
case "$1" in
 start)
       start
       ;;
 stop)
        echo "Stopping $DESC: " 
       start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON
       echo $?
       ;;
 restart|force-reload)
       $0 stop
       sleep 1
       start
        #echo "$NAME." 
       ;;
 *)
       N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
       echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
       exit 1
       ;;
esac
exit 0

 To Start SVN automatically at start up;refer this BLOG