Creating a new subversion repository with svn+ssh

1. Create the unix user and group that will own the repository

I've chosen 'svnrepo' as the user, and 'svnusers' as the group. Users that want to use the repo will need to be added to 'svnusers'.

Set the default group of user 'svnrepo' to 'svnusers'.

Add the 'svnusers' group to any users that need to use the repo.

2. Create the repository

Switch the the svnrepo user.

Choose a repository root directory, all subversion files will exist inside here.

svnrepo@turtle:~> svnadmin create /home/svnrepo/demo_project

3. Secure directory using group permissions

use chmod to change the permissions:

svnrepo@turtle:~/demo_project> chmod g+w db
svnrepo@turtle:~/demo_project> cd db
svnrepo@turtle:~/demo_project/db> chmod g+w rep-cache.db txn-current-lock transactions/ txn-protorevs/ write-lock
svnrepo@turtle:~/demo_project/db> chmod g+w -R revprops/ revs/