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Re: strange behaviour when using svn+ssh://

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-03-22 02:41:12 CET

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 11:30, Cédric Chabanois wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use svn 1.0.0 on Linux (Gentoo)
>
> I tried the following :
> "
> bash-2.05b$ svn co --non-interactive --username test --password mypasswd
> svn+ssh://localhost/home/cedric/projects/subversion/subclipse/svnant/test/svnssh/repository
> /home/cedric/projects/subversion/subclipse/svnant/test/svnssh/workingcopy
> Password:
> Password:
> "
>
> 1) test/mypasswd is a valid user so it shouldn't ask the password
> 2) I used --non-interactive so it really shouldn't ask the password
> 3) when I enter "mypasswd" after the "Password:" prompt, it does not work
> but if I enter the password of the current user, I am authenticated ...
>
> Am I wrong somewhere ?

You're a tiny bit confused. It's *ssh* which is asking you for the
password, not SVN. That's why none of the svn options are working. If
you don't want ssh to prompt you, read all about ssh-agent.

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