Setup subversion as an xinetd process in a few simple steps.

• Install software

• sudo aptitude install xinetd subversion

• Create root/home directory for subversion

• sudo mkdir /var/svn

• Create a user account for subversion

• sudo adduser --system --home /var/svn --no-create-home --disabled-password --disabled-login --group svn

• Give ownership of the svn root directory to the svn user

• chown -R svn:svn /var/svn

• Change to the svn user and create a new repository

• sudo -s -u svn
  svnadmin create /var/svn/mynewrepository

• Configure svnserve

• (edit file: /var/svn/mynewrepository/conf/svnserve.conf)
  [general]
  anon-access = none
  auth-access = write
  password-db = passwd
  

• (edit file: /var/svn/mynewrepository/conf/passwd)
  [users]
  myusername = mypassword

• Configure xinetd

• (create file: /etc/xinetd.d/svnserve)
  service svn
  {
   port = 3690
   socket_type = stream
   protocol = tcp
   wait = no
   user = svn
   server = /usr/bin/svnserve
   server_args = -i -r /var/svn
   }
  

• Restart xinetd

• sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

• Now you can check out your repository with the following command

• svn co svn://myusername@localhost/mynewrepository

Tags: Subversion, Ubuntu

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