svnserve
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NAME
svnserve - Server for the 'svn' repository access method
SYNOPSIS
- svnserve [options]
-
DESCRIPTION
svnserve allows access to Subversion repositories using the svn
network protocol. It can both run as a standalone server process, or
it can run out of inetd. You must choose a mode of operation when you
start
svnserve. The following options are recognized:
- -d, --daemon
-
Causes svnserve to run in daemon mode. svnserve
backgrounds itself and accepts and serves TCP/IP connections on the
svn port (3690, by default).
- --listen-port=port
-
Causes svnserve to listen on port when run in daemon mode.
- --listen-host=host
-
Causes svnserve to listen on the interface specified by host,
which may be either a hostname or an IP address.
- --foreground
-
When used together with -d, this option causes svnserve
to stay in the foreground. This option is mainly useful for
debugging.
- -i, --inetd
-
Causes svnserve to use the stdin/stdout file descriptors, as is
appropriate for a daemon running out of inetd.
- -h, --help
-
Displays a usage summary and exits.
- --version
-
Print svnserve's version and the repository filesystem
back-end(s) a particular svnserve supports.
- -r root, --root=root
-
Sets the virtual root for repositories served by svnserve. The
pathname in URLs provided by the client will be interpreted relative
to this root, and will not be allowed to escape this root.
- -R --read-only
-
Force all write operations through this svnserve instance to be
forbidden, overriding all other access policy configuration. Do not
use this option to set general repository access policy - that is what
the conf/svnserve.conf repository configuration file is for.
This option should be used only to restrict access via a certain
method of invoking svnserve - for example, to allow write access
via SSH, but not via a svnserve daemon, or to create a
restricted SSH key which is only capable of read access.
- -t, --tunnel
-
Causes svnserve to run in tunnel mode, which is just like the
inetd mode of operation (serve one connection over stdin/stdout)
except that the connection is considered to be pre-authenticated with
the username of the current uid. This flag is selected by the client
when running over a tunnel agent.
- --tunnel-user=username
-
When combined with --tunnel, overrides the pre-authenticated
username with the supplied username. This is useful in
combination with the ssh authorized_key file's "command" directive to
allow a single system account to be used by multiple committers, each
having a distinct ssh identity.
- -T, --threads
-
When running in daemon mode, causes svnserve to spawn a thread
instead of a process for each connection. The svnserve process
still backgrounds itself at startup time.
- --config-file=filename
-
When specified, svnserve reads filename once at program
startup and caches the svnserve configuration. The password
and authorization configurations referenced from filename will
be loaded on each connection. svnserve will not read any
per-repository conf/svnserve.conf files when this option is
used. See the svnserve.conf(5) man page for details of the
file format for this option.
- --pid-file=filename
-
When specified, svnserve will write its process ID to
filename.
- -X, --listen-once
-
Causes svnserve to accept one connection on the svn port, serve
it, and exit. This option is mainly useful for debugging.
Unless the --config-file option was specified on the command
line, once the client has selected a repository by transmitting its
URL, svnserve reads a file named conf/svnserve.conf in the
repository directory to determine repository-specific settings such as
what authentication database to use and what authorization policies to
apply. See the svnserve.conf(5) man page for details of that
file format.
SEE ALSO
svnserve.conf(5)