<p>I've installed Subversion on Ubuntu following the guide <em><a href="http://alephzarro.com/blog/2007/01/07/installation-of-subversion-on-ubuntu-with-apache-ssl-and-basicauth" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Installation of Subversion on Ubuntu, with Apache, SSL, and BasicAuth.</a></em>.</p>

<p>It works, and I was able commit and create different repositories, but somehow, from time to time (sometimes minutes), when trying to do a commit, I'm forced to reset or recreate my user and password with the following command.</p>

<pre><code>htpasswd2 -c -m /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd $AUTH_USER 
</code></pre>

<p>Because SVN does not recognize my user/password anymore. </p>

<p>I'm using TortoiseSVN as SVN Client. I would like to know why this is happening. Maybe it's a configuration issue, or maybe TortoiseSVN is sending invalid credentials, causing a locked account. Since I'm far from being an SVN expert/administrator. Are there some pointers in order to attack the problem.</p>

I'm using TortoiseSVN as well, but on Windows users' passwords are managed by
Active Directory
on the network domain. So usernames are in the format
```
<domain>\<user>
```
. And from time to time (weeks), I need to reset the password; it seems like the password is changed. I just do not know why.