Re: Feature Request: Allow "save authentication" for reading and writing separately

Bruce Gough wrote:
> Feature Request: Allow "save authentication" for reading and writing
> separately
>
> I have been using tortoiseSVN for a couple of years, and it works great.
> To avoid mistakes, I leave my client configured so that I must
> authenticate every time I access the repository. I have avoided doing
> "update" or completing the commit dialog by mistake more than once.
>
> My only problem with this is when I am doing activities like "check for
> modifications", then I click "Check repository", it does an
> authentication step. Then if I want to double click any file in the list
> of changed files and see the differences, it does another authentication
> each time I double click another file in the list of changed files..
> Each one has the "save authentication" checkbox, but I think that
> checking it would save the authentication and use it for all
> authentication steps.
>
> I have worked around this by checking the box, then later going into the
> settings and setting it back to requesting authentication.
>
> It might be a bug for the specific case where I have checked for
> modifications, then must authenticate for each file on which I want to
> view the differences. It seems like it should not be necessary then.
>
> One possible way to improve this could be to have a separate flag for
> "read" type operations vs. "write" type operations. Even though the diff
> of modifications could allow writing a merged file, that would not
> update the repository so it would count as a read operation.

That feature is already implemented :)
You have to configure your server accordingly.

Either configure the 'read' operations to not require authentication at
all (anonymous access) and only require authentication for the write
operations, or you could set up two different users, one which has only
read access (but still needs to authenticate, and for which you then
store/save the authentication data), and another one with write access
(for which you won't store/save the authentication data).

Stefan

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