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

On 09/03/2010 07:35 AM, Sean Erswell-Liljefelt wrote:
> 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.

The problem is that ViewVC doesn't handle authentication -- only
authorization.  It's Apache that's doing the authentication.  And Apache is
expecting your password file to be an Apache htpasswd file, not a Subversion
svnserve.conf file.  You'll need to maintain a separate htpasswd file that
shadows the names/passwords in your svnserve.conf file.

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C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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