(Experimental) adding user to Subversion.

svnadmin.rb

# usage:
# $ sudo ruby ./svnadmin.rb #{account} #{password}

account=ARGV[0]
password=ARGV[1]

# create user account.
system "sudo adduser --gecos ',,,' --disabled-login --quiet #{account}"
puts "result of adduser"
system "cat /etc/passwd | grep #{account}"

# add user to group. This is for local commit ("file:///").
system "sudo usermod -aG www-data #{account}"
puts "result of usermod"
system "cat /etc/group | grep www-data"

# add password for apache2.
system "echo #{password} | sudo htpasswd -i /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd #{account}"
puts "result of htpasswd"
system "cat /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd | grep #{account}"

# add svn password.
# Premise: passwd file is ended with "[users]"
passwd_file = File.open('/var/lib/svn/repo/conf/passwd','a')
passwd_file.puts "#{account} = #{password}"
passwd_file.close
puts "result of adding entry into /var/lib/svn/repo/conf/passwd"
system "tail /var/lib/svn/repo/conf/passwd"

# add authentication for repository.
authz_file = File.open('/var/lib/svn/repo/conf/authz','a')
authz_file.puts <<EOF
[repo:#{account}]
#{account} = rw
EOF
puts "result of adding entry into /var/lib/svn/repo/conf/authz"
system "tail /var/lib/svn/repo/conf/authz"