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user1163650
user1163650

Reputation: 119

svn: E170001 : Authorization failed

I am trying to execute the following commands: 

svn checkout --username=shohrab svn+ssh://[email protected]/p/dbprojecthft/code-0/ dbprojecthft-code-0
cd dbprojecthft-code-0
mkdir trunk branches tags
svn add trunk branches tags
svn ci -m "Add initial directories"

For the last command I am getting svn: E170001: Authorization failed error. After trying few hours on this error I am giving up.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 65320

Answers (5)

Elyahu
Elyahu

Reputation: 336

As previously said here the error directing you to check your authentication, but it can be in several places, that you might need to check:

  1. Is your username in passwd and authz file is properly defined ?
  2. Is your conf/svnserve.conf direct you properly to the desired authentication method ?
  3. Is your repo is open for wring on the OS level ? (chmod 777 for UNIX)
  4. Is you repo inistialize ?

You can understand more if you try to run either of the "cvn list" or "svnsync" command check usage for more info

Upvotes: 1

serafin
serafin

Reputation: 1

Perhaps you must to look at Preferences->General->Network Connections. And to make sure that svn server is available.

Upvotes: -1

Nick Stefanisko
Nick Stefanisko

Reputation: 37

Because this entry turned up first in google and because SVN's error messages were written by Captain Obvious' third half-cousin's step brother, I just want to comment here that I was receiving the Unauthorized error message myself and just couldn't figure it out. Using file:// every thing worked fine: update/commit no problem. But when going via snv:// boom no auth for you. I could checkout but not commit. I was thinking maybe the creds wheren't getting through and I was being treated as an anonymous user, but no that wasn't it. Maybe my .conf file was not being read. But no that wasn't it because it knew my realm name. Turns out the default settings in /etc/sysconfig/svnserve for the the svnserve daemon have a -R option set. -R stands for READONLY, so it's not so much that I'm not authorized to access but rather that the whole server is set to fail. Would have been nice if there was a message that said, "Hey stupid, your server is read only. You may want to check that." In this case Auth Failed is not exactly the right error message because my auth did not fail, it was the write that failed due to the read only option being set.

Upvotes: -3

StanBell
StanBell

Reputation: 51

The E170001 error also appears for repository updates (commits) if svnserve has been invoked with the -R (--read-only) option.

Upvotes: 5

bahrep
bahrep

Reputation: 30672

The error svn: E170001: Authorization failed says what it says; it occurs only when your user account does not have permissions to access the selected resource or when you provided invalid authentication credentials. In case of invalid credentials you'll see additional errors.

As far as I can see, you can checkout the project therefore you have Read access, but the commit fails since you don't have Write access OR since there was some authentication related-issue. So you should double-check

  • that the URL that you enter to checkout the project is valid,
  • that you specify the correct username and password to authenticate to the server,
  • that your user account has Read / Write access to the project you attempt to commit to.

Upvotes: 5

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