title: SVN Access Restricted to Creator
body: <p>I am new to SVN and I'm trying to create a repository for a group project. I have been able to create, checkout, import and generally work with the repository. However, when my colleagues attempt to access the repository with the same command, the following errors appear.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ svn checkout file:///tmp_mnt/home/malavin/workbench/repos/
  svn: Unable to open ra_local session to URL
  svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///tmp_mnt/home/malavin/workbench/repos/'
  svn: Berkeley DB error for filesystem '/tmp_mnt/home/malavin/workbench/repos/db' while opening environment:
  
  svn: Permission denied.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>For good measure, I set the svnserve.conf file to </p>
  
  <pre><code>[general]
  anon-access = write
  auth-access = write
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I think that my problem currently lies in the "file:///" URL, and that maybe I should use svnserve to use a "svn://" URL. However, I tried this with no avail, yielding a different error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ svn checkout svn://$USER@`hostname`/tmp_mnt/home/malavin/workbench/repos/
  svn: Can't connect to host 'ca02-ws0000': connection refused
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am at a loss now. Hence, my presence here. Thank you for any insight you can give me.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Okay, so after running svnserve as daemon and using the svn:// URL, my colleague received the following trying to open my repository.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ svn checkout svn://$USER@`hostname`/tmp_mnt/home/malavin/workbench/repos
  svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /tmp_mnt/home/malavin/workbench/repos/db: Permission denied.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After seeing that error, I thought permissions the issue and did </p>
  
  <pre><code>chmod 777 /db/*
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And my colleague tried again and received a slightly different error plus a bonus error!</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ svn checkout svn://$USER@`hostname`/tmp_mnt/home/malavin/workbench/repos
  svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /tmp_mnt/home/malavin/workbench/repos/db: Invalid argument.
  svn: bdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version.
  </code></pre>