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svnserve(8) 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. -r root, --root=root Sets the virtual root for repositories served by svnserve. The pathname in URLs provided by the client will be interpreted rela- tive 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 user- name 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. -X, --listen-once Causes svnserve to accept one connection on the svn port, serve it, and exit. This option is mainly useful for debugging. Once the client has selected a repository by transmitting its URL, svnserve reads a file named conf/svnserve.conf in the repository direc- tory to determine repository-specific settings such as what authentica- tion database to use and what authorization policies to apply. See the svnserve.conf(5) man page for details of that file format. svnserve(8)