Setting Up Subversion Server With SSH Login and Mail Notifications on FreeBSD

I combined few tutorial I found on interwebs to set this up and don’t wanna loose it, so I puttin it here… Make sure you have installed OpenSSH server and Subversion packages. First, create user “svnadm” for admin and group “svnusers”. Then add svnadm to svnusers group. pw usermod svnadm -G svnusers All users that are supposed to use svn should have umask 002 in .cshrc or .bashrc. That prevents destroying group write permissions during SSH session. Make directory where you want to store your repos, let’s say /usr/local/svnrepos mkdir /usr/local/svnrepos Next, we will restrict access to this area only for root and svn users: chown -R root:svnusers /usr/local/svnrepos chmod -R u+wrx,g+wrx,o-wrx /usr/local/svnrepos Then, rename svnserve binary to svnserve.bin and create svnserve script wrapper and make it executable: ########### svnserve ####### #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/svnserve.bin -r /path/to/repos/root “$@” ############################ After that, su to svnadm user and create repo, named, let’s say, studsvn. su - svnadm svnadmin create /usr/local/svnrepos/studsvn chmod -R o-rwx /usr/local/svnrepos/studsvn Configure repository cd /usr/local/svnrepos/studsvn/conf edit svnserve.conf and make it look like this (just uncomment stuff): [general] anon-access = none auth-access = write Test your connection like this: svn list svn+ssh://<user-id>@<host>/studsvn If it doesn’t work, you probably screwed some permissions, so make sure that your users are in svnusers group, that they have umask 002 in their default shel l’s rc file and svn repo has recursive g+rwx. After that, you may want to have mail notifications for your commits like perforce has. You need mailer.py script, so you either install svnmailer package, or compile from ports (mail/svnmailer). After that, you will be able to use mailer.py. Sort of. First, copy it from /usr/local/share/subversion/hook-scripts/mailer/mailer.py to /usr/local/bin or create symlink. Then, get to /usr/local/svnrepos/studsvn/hooks and copy post-commit.tmpl to post-commit, make it executable and then edit it. You will also need mailer.conf, so copy it from /usr/local/share/subversion/hook-scripts/mailer/tests/mailer.conf to your <repository_path>/hooks (seems best to me) and edit it to suit your needs. You also need smtp server which will allow relaying. Do it yourself. Be sure to edit from_addr, to_addr and reply_to in mailer.conf. Enjoy massive distribute spam attack.