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RE: Why does SVN prompt me for a password every time, after a domain migration?

From: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) <dk068x_at_att.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:47:54 -0700

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Grover [mailto:kevin_at_kevingrover.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:16 PM
> To: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI)
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Why does SVN prompt me for a password every time, after a
> domain migration?
>
> Subversion caches that stuff in "%APPDATA%\Subversion", I believe in a
> file called 'auth'. Can't test right now because I'm not on a
> Windows system at the moment. Perhaps the owner did not get updated
> and the new domain can't write the the directory/file? You can look
> around there. Possibly just delete the directory/file - however,
> other options and passwords will go away -- be reset to the default.

I've found more interesting behavior.

I was doing this work on the command line for a few minutes, supplying the manual "--password" command-line parameter. After I finished that work I went back to Eclipse and I later realized that I wasn't getting prompting from SVN anymore. I then went back to the command line and tried not supplying the "--password" parameter, and it worked fine.

If I understand this correctly, when you supply a working password through either the command line or Subversive, neither should ask again. The command line appears to have stored it correctly, but Subversive did not.

I then tried restarting Eclipse (just to be sure), and it's still not presenting the password dialog.

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 15:36, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) <dk068x_at_att.com>
> wrote:
> > A few days ago my login got moved from one Windows domain to another.
> > I've had to deal with several problems as a result of that.  One
> > particular problem is having with SVN.  For some reason SVN is
> prompting
> > me for a password on every single operation it tries to do.
> >
> > This is tolerable in Eclipse (Subversive plugin), as I simply have to
> > press Enter on the dialog each time, as it's preentered the name and
> > password.
> >
> > However, it's worse from the command line.  I can get it to work if I
> > manually add "--password ..." to the command line.  If I don't, the
> > Cygwin Bash shell seems to get confused about how to handle the
> prompts.
> > I have to use a non-Cygwin SVN.
> >
> > I never had to re-specify the password on every operation before the
> > domain migration.
> >
Received on 2010-09-14 17:49:01 CEST

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