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.

       --version
            Print svnserve's version and the repository filesystem back-end(s) a particular svnserve supports.

       -r root, --root=root
            Sets the virtual root for repositories served by svnserve.  The pathname in  URLs  provided  by  the
            client will be interpreted relative 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 username 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 having 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.

       --config-file=filename
            When  specified,  svnserve  reads  filename  once  at  program  startup  and  caches  the   svnserve
            configuration.   The  password  and  authorization  configurations  referenced from filename will be
            loaded on each connection.  svnserve will not read any per-repository conf/svnserve.conf files  when
            this  option  is  used.   See  the svnserve.conf(5) man page for details of the file format for this
            option.

       --pid-file=filename
            When specified, svnserve will write its process ID to filename.

       -X, --listen-once
            Causes svnserve to accept one connection on the svn port, serve it, and exit.  This option is mainly
            useful for debugging.

       Unless the --config-file option was specified on the  command  line,  once  the  client  has  selected  a
       repository  by  transmitting  its  URL,  svnserve reads a file named conf/svnserve.conf in the repository
       directory to determine repository-specific settings such as what authentication database to use and  what
       authorization policies to apply.  See the svnserve.conf(5) man page for details of that file format.

SEE ALSO

       svnserve.conf(5)

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