[viewvc-users] viewvc+svnauthz+apache=user not found

Hi!

OK I have a set up roughly described as this:

- about 8 repos set up to use a common svnserve.conf, passwd and authz file which is stored under /some/path/

- viewvc using svnauthz as the auth mechanism

apache set up with the following section for viewvc:

<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80>
ServerName svn.mycompany.com

DocumentRoot "/some/path/viewvc/bin/cgi"

<Directory "/some/path/viewvc/bin/cgi">
DirectoryIndex viewvc.cgi
AllowOverride All

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Please logon using your SVN Username & Password"
AuthUserFile /some/path/passwd
Require valid-user

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</Directory>

AddDefaultCharset utf-8

</VirtualHost>

If I comment out the auth section of the httpd.conf, viewvc rightly takes me to the root with no permissions to see any repositories (obviously it is reading my authz file successfully)

If I uncomment again it rightly prompts me for user/password, but even if I put in the correct user/password it just prompts again and the following can be seen in the http error.log

[Fri Sep 03 11:26:52 2010] [error] [client 10.57.27.23] user someuser not found: /

So it seems like it cannot read my passwd file correctly?

Here is an anonymized  version of that file jsut to show the formatting I am using:

### Its format is similar to that of svnserve.conf. As shown in the
### example below it contains one section labelled [users].
### The name and password for each user follow, one account per line.

[users]
user1 = password
user2 = password
user3 = password


Can anyone see the problem? the passwd file works fine for SVN.

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