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svn: Not authorized to open root of edit operation

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So this was a new one for me. After I successfully imported a couple projects on a Windows XP subversion repository I received the error:

svn: Not authorized to open root of edit operation

After a little search on Google I determined the issue was that I didn’t have a

anon-access=none

line in my svnserve.conf file.

Written by Shane

April 25th, 2007 at 9:21 am

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  1. I’ve gotten the same problem in vista. And found here from google.
    thank you!

    simon

    18 May 07 at 11:16 am

  2. Same here, I just googled in.
    This line was / is not mentioned in the book I’m using.

    tnx!

    bram

    13 Jun 07 at 9:53 am

  3. Ah! Thankyou for publishing this note, which Google found for me when I got exactly the same error!

    Erik Forsberg

    21 Jun 07 at 2:29 am

  4. Thanks! I was missing this too. Other pages suggested adding:

    [/]
    * = r

    but I didn’t want my whole repository open to everyone.

    Aaron

    28 Jun 07 at 8:16 pm

  5. Thank you very much for this tip.
    Other resources tend to make the repository more open; your solution makes it more secure :) Nice.
    And it works. I tried.

    Yves.

    theYinYeti

    20 Jul 07 at 8:30 am

  6. Thanks.. Also as the other said, google guided me here and the solution worked out the problem for me too

    Eric

    9 Sep 07 at 2:28 pm

  7. Fantastic :-P

    I’m just wondering why the hell this line makes any difference…

    I had:

    anon-access = read

    and it still didn’t work. As soon as I found this post I ran to put none… and VOILA… it worked!

    Thanks one more time the valuable post.

    Carlos

    cjmv

    13 Nov 07 at 12:00 pm

  8. Oh man, thank you very much for this. I remember I had this error a couple of years ago when I was using subversion for my college project and I spent a lot of time fixing it, but I did.

    Now I’m starting up a project with my friend, so I naturally installed subversion and bang, here’s that error again. Of course I couldn’t remember what I did last time so I went for a Google search - this time it was waaay faster, thanks a lot!

  9. Yes but, if you set * = r then any body can get the entry repository, and I need a full restriction, something like:
    [/]
    fefo = rw
    pepito = rw

    Arian Fornaris

    22 Jan 08 at 2:15 pm

  10. Thank’s, very hours of search.
    Thank You very much!!

  11. You saved my live !
    Thanks a lot.

    Fernando Hartmann

    15 Feb 08 at 6:33 am

  12. wow .. wonderful support from you people… I was struggling with this error.. now it’s working fine.. thanx a lot :)

    Syed Chan

    5 May 08 at 8:34 am

  13. Great!! It works!!! Thank you very much!!!

    Robson Wolanski

    14 May 08 at 1:48 pm

  14. Thanks a lot, I’ve been struggling with this for a wile and was becoming quite mad….

    Alberto de Paola

    29 May 08 at 2:48 pm

  15. Thanks! I did search for 2 hours, because I was searching for the german errormessage, but the english original did the trick :) thanks a lot!

    greetz

    Werner

    2 Jun 08 at 9:38 am

  16. [...] Retried, carefully ensuring I typed it right, same error. So I googled around, and ran into this: Digital Sanctum Blog Archive svn: Not authorized to open root of edit operation [...]

  17. this one missed me until now. saved my hour (if not day). thanks!

    pletisan

    4 Jul 08 at 7:08 am

  18. This correct the comment I posted before…

    Well, if you have
    anon-access = read
    in your svnserve.conf file, you must have
    [/]
    * = r
    in your authz-db file
    But if you have
    anon-access = none <— I write read in the other comment
    you don’t need the
    * = r
    in your authz-db file.

    It runs on my svn, hope this solve your problems…

    Salu2

    juancho

    29 Aug 08 at 4:44 am

  19. I finally found the answer… woot!!

    52

    52

    26 Sep 08 at 1:25 am

  20. thanks!

    inn

    23 Oct 08 at 4:04 am

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