Changing the Password for SVN User ‘polarion’
A Subversion repository user named polarion is created by default when you install Polarion. This user acts on behalf of the Polarion application and consequently has extensive permissions including read permission for all projects. Access to this user by unauthorized people would compromise the security of your Polarion system, so it is advisable to change this password before putting the system into production use.
The following steps assume you use passwd file authentication, which is the most common method.
Stop the Polarion server before changing this password.
Use the htpasswd utility to change the password for the user polarion. The utility is installed on your system together with the Apache server binaries.
Utility Syntax: htpasswd path/passwdfilename username
Example: htpasswd /opt/polarion/data/svn/passwd polarion
Next, change the value of the password property in the polarion.properties file to the password you set with the htpasswd utility. Typical location of this file is /opt/polarion/etc/polarion.properties.
For LDAP Users
The typical setup for most Polarion users is passwd file authentication for the polarion user with failover to LDAP for company users. This is also the default Polarion setup.
For such setups, you do not need to enter the polarion user to your LDAP users.