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  1. Bug #520743
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 520743

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LimCore (limcore) wrote : Re: svn stoped asking for auth, and connects as anonymous - giving usually svn: Authorization failed

The work around is to enable (append or edit) to barbar/conf/svnserve.conf lines:
password-db = passwd
authz-db = authz

And this setting must remain all the time.

But is NOT needed when using the old-repo I mentioned above.
So apparently if repo was created in other way (the old one was done afair with svn+ssh at first) then some parts of settings in svnserver are not important.

So this is ANOTHER of authz usage inconsistencies (see also bug#519083)!

Really this should be more consistent and documented. I will contact upstream.
Marking as security bug, really source code can be important, not everyone is [wide]open-source ;)