[OS X TeX] svnX and Leopard [OT]

[David Watson]

On my older computer I had set up svnserve through Fink, and this is  
what I had prepended to my authorized key:

command="/sw/bin/svnserve -t --tunnel-user=myusername -r /Volumes/ 
SVNVolume/SVNRoot",no-port-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-X11- 
forwarding,no-pty

So it would appear that you do need to point to your svnserve  
application on the server machine. I believe the tunneled user has to  
have permissions on the repository, and the extra fluff was there to  
ensure that the subversion user was sufficiently limited in terms of  
shell/X11 capabilities, which you can read all about in the excellent  
manual.

I have never used svnX, and indeed everything I have done is from the  
CLI. I recall that there were other ways of setting up subversion than  
through svn+ssh, and perhaps svnX uses one of those other  
authorization methods.

Good luck,
   David

On Jun 16, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Alan Munn wrote:

> Hi, I sent the following to the subverion list, but noone replied,  
> probably because it's too Mac specific.  Since I know some of us  
> here use svn, perhaps someone here has encountered this problem and  
> knows how to solve it.
>
> I use svnX on Macs to access my repositories using svn+ssh. Now with  
> a new machine running OS 10.5.3 I get the following error:
>
> tchs: svnserve: Command not found
> svn: Connection closed unexpectedly
>
> I can access the repository from the command line, but not through  
> the client.  I've set up a dsa key specifically for subversion, and  
> added it to the authorized keys on the server machine. This works  
> for two other Macs running 10.4.  (One these machines I use  
> sshagent, but I understand this is not required on OS 10.5.
>
> In the authorized keys file on the server side the key for  
> subversion includes the prefix "command=/usr/local/bin/svnserve -t" .
>
> Should this command  have a path that is to svnserve on the server  
> side? (The server is running 10.4, so svn is in /usr/local/bin  
> whereas svn is now part of OS 10.5, so on the client machine it's  
> in /usr/bin.  Could this be a source of the problem?
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Alan