So, just to clarify...
On one machine:
$ su svn
Will change you to the svn user while on another machine:
$ su svn
Will output:
su: Sorry
The problem would be the configuration of the two machines and not a
Subversion issue. You may want to try the BSD list about why you have
these two different behaviors on your machines. I would also look at
the manpage of the su command to see if there is something that
could be affecting the behavior of the su command.
Take a look at the su command in the startup script. It probably
looks something like:
su svn -c $path_to_svnserve/svnserve -r $SVN_REPOS -d
See if you can execute this command on the command line. Also try
putting set +xv and set -xv around the command inside the shell
script. This puts the shell into verbose and debug mode, so it will
echo all the commands it is executing before executing them. Sometimes
this helps clarify where a problem might be. For example, your
svnserve command might not be in the $PATH to be executed. Or, maybe
an environment variable isn't being defined correctly.
An alternative, try the sudo command if it is available on your machine:
$ sudo -u svn $path_to_svnserve_dir/svnserve -r $SVN_ROOT -d
Depending how your sudo command is setup (see /etc/sudo about
configuration), it might ask you for a password, or maybe setup not to
allow you to run the command. The default is to allow the root user to
run all commands without a password.
I've found sudo to work a bit better than su in many situations.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 6:22 AM, KES kes-...@yandex.ru wrote:
Здравствуйте, David.
I have
home# uname -a
FreeBSD home.kes.net.ua 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue Aug 12 02:11:24
EEST 2008 k...@kes.net.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KES_KERN_v7 i386
on this machine sveserve startsup normally
My confusion comes from the output of PW
home# pw user show svn
svn:*:1003:1002::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
pw is utility to edit /etc/master.passwd
home# cat /etc/master.passwd | grep svn
svn:*:1003:1002::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
showing me that user svn is a valid user
'svn' user is valid user
Have you tried changing the svn user shell to /bin/bash
telling this:
:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
I point that anyone can not use this user to login to system. But
because of 'svn' is valid system user process can low his right to
'svn' user
On this HOME machine when I try run svnserve it is runned despite on 'su svn'
can not login me:
home# su svn
This account is currently not available.
home# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start
Starting svnserve.
home# ps ax|grep svn
34209 ?? Ss 0:00,00 /usr/local/bin/svnserve -d --listen-port=3690 -r
/usr
34211 p0 S+ 0:00,00 grep svn
But on other machine with same user I can not start svnserver
kes# pw user show svn
svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
kes# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start
Starting svnserve.
su: Sorry
kes# pw user mod svn -s /bin/bash
kes# pw user show svn
svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/bin/bash
kes# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start
Starting svnserve.
su: Sorry
DW Have you tried changing the svn user shell to /bin/bash and see if
DW your startup script is working.
the differences between this machines only are next:
home# svnserve --version
svnserve, version 1.5.1 (r32289)
compiled Aug 3 2008, 00:10:41
home# uname -a
FreeBSD home.kes.net.ua 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue Aug 12 02:11:24
EEST 2008 k...@kes.net.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KES_KERN_v7 i386
and
kes# svnserve --version
svnserve, version 1.5.2 (r32768)
compiled Oct 8 2008, 21:55:55
kes# uname -a
FreeBSD kes.net.ua 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #: Sun Nov 23
17:19:12 EET 2008 k...@home.kes.net.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KES_KERN_v7
i386
DW It would be helpful if you explained your system, setup, what you were
DW doing, and the results instead of simply showing us the output of a
DW couple of commands. It is hard to figure out exactly what you are
DW trying to do and what you have done.
I try to run 'svnserve'. I just install svnserver and add user svn to
run svnserve under. I do same things on 'kes' as on 'home' machine.
Вы писали 14 декабря 2008 г., 7:22:39:
DW I'm a bit confused by what you're asking. I believe PW is a command
DW for editing groups and users on BSD, but I've never really used it.
DW My confusion comes from the output of PW. A typical user line has
DW seven fields, your output shows 11 fields. I am assuming that you're
DW showing me that user svn is a valid user. However, the shell is
DW setup to be /usr/sbin/nologin (which I assume is similar to setting
DW the shell to /etc/false).
DW Doing a su svn won't log you in becuase of the shell. I don't have
DW the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve script in front of me, so I can't
DW tell you what it is doing, but I suspect that since the su svn
