Adding users to svn

Add a user to the file /etc/subversion/svn-authz, then give that user a password as described below. A suitable command could be sudo vim /etc/subversion/svn-authz or sudo emacs /etc/subversion/svn-authz.

sudo htpasswd -m /etc/subversion/svn-auth-file sally
New password: *******
Re-type new password: *******
Adding password for user sally

Optionally, add the user to the group samicvs in the file /etc/aliases, and run the program newaliases.