SVNKit authentication always fails

Question

I am trying to checkout my code using svnkit and it is always returning E170001 (403 forbidden) although I can successfuly use command line svn and tortoise to access my repo.

The reason why I am using svnkit is to debug the same issue happening when checking out using Jenkins.

I am using a Windows PC for the running the following client code:

import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException;
import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNURL;
import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.auth.BasicAuthenticationManager;
import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNWCUtil;
import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnCheckout;
import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnOperationFactory;
import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnTarget;

import java.io.File;

public class Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final SvnOperationFactory svnOperationFactory = new SvnOperationFactory();
        BasicAuthenticationManager auth = BasicAuthenticationManager.newInstance(windows_username, password);
        svnOperationFactory.setAuthenticationManager(auth);

        try {
            final SvnCheckout checkout = svnOperationFactory.createCheckout();
            checkout.setSource(SvnTarget.fromURL(SVNURL.parseURIEncoded(pathToTrunk)));
            checkout.setSingleTarget(SvnTarget.fromFile(new File(targetPathOnDisk)));
            checkout.run();
            System.out.println("Success");
        } catch (SVNException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            svnOperationFactory.dispose();
        }
    }
}

And this is the dependency in maven POM file:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.tmatesoft.svnkit</groupId>
        <artifactId>svnkit</artifactId>
        <version>1.8.11</version>
    </dependency>

Could you please contact me by e-mail (see it in my profile)? An additional question: what protocol are you using (http / svn+ssh / ...)? — Dmitry Pavlenko, Mar 09 '16 at 08:35
@DmitryPavlenko, your email is not showing on your profile. I am normally using Tortoise and for the first use, it asked me for my username and password once (windows username) and then not again. So I assume it is a username/password access to the repo. Is there a way to query the repo info and check what kind of authentication? and maybe what version as well? — Bishoy, Mar 10 '16 at 01:46
Also I found the command line svn to be of version 1.7.5. Is this important? How can I make svnkit behaves as if it is svn client 1.7.x — Bishoy, Mar 10 '16 at 01:49
Please, can you try it [How to get all files and directories from the SVN repository using java](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16536149/how-to-get-all-files-and-directories-from-the-svn-repository-using-java) — rgarcial, Apr 27 '17 at 07:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '16 at 02:10

If your server is using chroot for the repos, and if the chroot doesn't have a copy of /etc/passwd in CHROOT/etc/, you will get this error. It took me some time to figure this one out, because it's weird, because SSH connection works, checkout works, but commit does not work.

SVNKit authentication always fails

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