The UID of the existing csvn user is modified during install or upgrade of CollabNet Subversion.
See the following code sample:
$ ll /var/svn/repositories/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2009-01-12 16:43 test $ id csvn uid=501(csvn) gid=501(csvn) groups=501(csvn) After installing the two rpm packages below the csvn (uid=501) was deleted and a new on was created with (uid=503) $ sudo rpm -Uvh CollabNet* CollabNetSubversion-client-1.5.5-1.i386 CollabNetSubversion-server-1.5.5-1.i386 $ id csvn uid=503(csvn) gid=503(csvn) groups=503(csvn)