Access to '/SVN/[repo name]/!svn/me' forbi

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I am having some issue with some SVN users where they get the following message

Access to '/SVN/[repo name]/!svn/me' forbidden

I am having some issues figuring out the root cause of it.

The current setup is using Visual SVN on windows. We are using SVN security for the users, not AD. The users are that are having some issue are vendors(but not all of them), so they do have different permissions then an average user. But the weird thing is, I shadowed the user using Live meeting. They try to commit and get the message above. I clear their credentials from Tortoise SVN and use mine and everything is fine. The user is logged into the server as themselves and using my user info for SVN. But their is no link between the SVN users and windows users. Also the user was initially able to commit new files. I looked through SVN and I dont see anything wrong. Any ideas? Anyway to get more information about what is wrong.

Answer 1

I had the same problem. In my case problem was in svnaccess.txt file with define permission. Name of groups cannot have spaces e.g

[svnloop:/test group]
@admins = rw 

return this erro You must change to

[svnloop:/testgroup]
@admins = rw 

Answer 2

H20rider

Please make sure the SVN url is correct. SVN is case sensitive. If you defined you root folder as ServicesTrunk then your svn access url needs to be of the same case.

you get the following error if you use

host:port/svn/ServicesTrunk ------- this will work

**case not right**
host:port/svn/servicesTrunk -------- will throw !svn/me' forbidden
host:port/svn/Servicestrunk --------- will throw !svn/me' forbidden