SVN Web-dav isn't asking for authenication

Question

We are running a Ubuntu 9.10 server with Web-Dav to host an SVN repository. Here's my dav_svn.conf settings for it:

<Location /svn/myrepo>
        DAV svn
        SVNPath /home/svn/myrepo
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Our Subversion Repository"
        AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd
        <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
                Require valid-user
        </LimitExcept>
</Location>

I can access it here:

http://myserver.com/svn/myrepo

But it isn't asking for any type of authentication. Am I missing something here? /etc/subversion/passwd exists and is populated with usernames and password hashes.

Answer 1

By using LimtExcept this way you are limiting access to the repository except for the GET, PROPFIND, OPTIONS and REPORT methods.

That means read-only access to the repository is permitted but authentication is required when commiting code.

Is that what you intended?