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Setup SVN Server ∞

  1. Install Subversion

    • Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora
      • sudo yum install subversion
    • Debian Based (Ubuntu)
      • sudo apt-get install subversion
  2. Create a repository

    3. sudo mkdir /data01/svn
sudo mkdir /data01/svn/repos
sudo svnadmin create /data01/svn/repos/new_repo

  3. Create an SVN group (add whichever users you would like to it)

    4. sudo groupadd svn
sudo usermod -a -G svn svn_user

  4. Create svn user as part of the svn group.

    5. sudo useradd -g svn svn

  5. Give the new group ownership of the repos directory and set the permissions.

    6. sudo chown -R svn:svn /data01/svn
sudo chmod -R 775 /data01/svn

  6. Create a wrapper for svnserve at /data01/svn/svnserve.sh.

    7. #!/bin/sh 
# set the umask so that files are group writable
umask 002
# call svnserve, passing the default repo location
exec /usr/bin/svnserve "$@" -r /data01/svn/repos

  7. Symlink to /usr/local/bin. Set permissions appropriately.

    8. cd /usr/local/bin/
sudo ln -s /data01/svn/svnserve.sh svnserve
sudo chmod 755 /data01/svn/svnserve.sh

Setup Key-Based Authentication ∞

  1. Create public/private key pair using ssh-keygen on local machine.
    2. svn@cwch3wnsapvl001:/home/svn$ ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/data01/home/svn/.ssh/id_rsa):
Created directory '/data01/home/svn/.ssh'.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /data01/home/svn/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /data01/home/svn/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
20:bc:01:62:a9:60:e6:0e:5a:3c:dc:12:d7:44:5e:f7 svn@ch3wnsapvl001.domain.com
  2. Copy the public key to remote host with ssh-copy-id
    3. ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remote-host
  3. Test login from remote-host. Verify that it is now passwordless
    4. user@localhost:~$ ssh svn@wins.clearwire.com
svn@cwch3wnsapvl001:~$
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