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Re: svn+ssh requests password 3 times

From: Anne Hammond <hammond_at_txcorp.com>
Date: 2007-02-15 23:07:32 CET

Thanks. This makes sense. I will make sure new users
know this.

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Feb 15, 2007, at 16:03, Anne Hammond wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty familiar with ssh, generating and installing keys,
>> etc.
>>
>> If you do a straight ssh svnhost, you are only asked for your
>> password once. I think it is using keyboard-interactive/pam
>> authentication by default.
>>
>> So is svn asking ssh to try a different authentication method??
>
> I believe Subversion merely needs to make multiple connections to do its
> thing. Since Subversion cannot cache ssh passwords, it must ask you for the
> password each time, if you haven't generated keys and so forth.
>
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