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Re: no prompt for username and password

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:14:33 +0200

On 15.07.2010 21:10, Simon Large wrote:
> On 15 July 2010 16:56, Stefan Küng<tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 15.07.2010 14:16, Simon Large wrote:
>>> On 15 July 2010 12:37, Felix Saphir<felix.saphir_at_kantarmedia.de> wrote:
>>>> Anton schrieb:
>>>>> Well, I'm trying to check out code and its giving me a 403 error.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have checked with the IT Helpdesk people who are responsible for
>>>>> the respository and they have confirmed that I do have access to it.
>>>>> It seems that I am just not being prompted for the username/password.
>>>>
>>>> Well, AFAIK HTTP "403 Forbidden" means that wether or not you're
>>>> authenticated, the server will not grant access to the requested
>>>> resource. I think, the server should rather respond with "401
>>>> Unauthorized" to your request.
>>>
>>> Which possibly means that you are using the wrong URL. Check with the
>>> repository administrator.
>>
>> Or the GUEST account on your machine is active. In that case, Windows
>> always authenticates with that account. The authentication is then
>> successful, but of course the GUEST account is not authorized to access
>> the repository and so you get a 403 error (authentication and
>> authorization are two different things).
>
> Presuming you mean guest account on the server, not guest on the client here.

Actually, both. If the guest account is disabled on the server, then
there's no need to disable it on the client. But if the server can't be
messed with, disabling it on the client should work too.

Stefan

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