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svnserve(8)                            System Manager's Manual                           svnserve(8)



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  pro‐
            vided  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 invok‐
            ing svnserve - for example, to allow write access via SSH, but not via a  svnserve  dae‐
            mon, 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  hav‐
            ing 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  op‐
            tion is mainly useful for debugging.

       Unless  the  --config-file  option was specified on the command line, once the client has se‐
       lected 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 authenti‐
       cation 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)



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