How can I programatically add a user to subversion from a shell script?

I would like to create a subversion user without restarting the subversion server but the only way to do this seems to be to edit the开发者_StackOverflow中文版 passwd file.

Is there a command to add a user?

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There are different ways to authenticate depending on how svn is accessed. If you're serving it through apache htpasswd or htdigest may do what you want.

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If you are using the svnserve daemon only, then the user file is the file named in

password-db = passwd.conf

in the conf/svnserve.conf configuration file under the [general] header. There is no API to add users to this file but you can always do:

echo "$user = $passwd" >> conf/passwd.conf

Which will simply append the new user at the end of the list (I assume you have the [users] header already set at the top of that file.

I don't think you should restart the server for the new user to be taken into account.