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Create separate user and insert svnserve into inetd.

# useradd -g root -s /bin/false -d /dev/null -c "SubVersion Daemon" svnserve
# mkdir /var/svn
# chown -R svnserve /var/svn
# update-inetd --add 'svn\tstream\ttcp\tnowait\tsvnserve\t/usr/sbin/tcpd\t/usr/bin/svnserve --inetd --root /var/svn'


/var/svn - root of repository.
update-inetd - standart tool in debian and ubuntu linux distros

You must run svnadmin as svnserve user for manage your repository

$ sudo sudo -u svnserve svnadmin <command>


to linux bash shell subversion debian server administration ubuntu control svn source svnserve scm inetd by sevkin on Tue Sep 19 19:48:50 -0400 2006

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