Re: What is the easiest way to "preauthenticate" users?

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Doyle, Patrick wrote:
>
> Doyle, Patrick wrote:
>
>>I would like to figure out the easiest way for users to authenticate
>>themselves with my Subversion server the first time (recognizing that,
>>subsequent to that first time, the authentication data will have been
>>cached).
>
> Well, it's been a week since I sent this out and, judging from the
> thundering silence, I assume that there is not, in fact, an easier way for a
> user to gain initial write access to a repository without first attempting
> to write to the repository.

Somehow I missed your first post (NOTE-TO-SELF: too busy?), but, let me try to think now...

So, you want to have your user never to be asked about username/password?
In other words, you want their credentials cached?

What protocol are you using? (HTTP/svn/svn+ssh)
There is always a solution, but it is protocol dependent. And probably (client) OS dependent.
What OS are your clients?
We are talking about the built-in CLI, right? Actually it should not matter.

> So, if I were to take some time to investigate this, do folks "in the know"
> think it would be a worthwhile addition to subversion? Or would I be
> opening up a can of worms that, ultimately, would never lead anywhere
> useful?
If there there is only silence, I guess the can is empty, so no worms will get out :-)

When asking on any ML, provide enough information about your environment.

0. Environment description (OS, product version, ...)
1. What you wanted to achieve?
2. What you did?
3. What happened?
4. What was supposed to happen?

Kalin.

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