Re: Password prompt for everyrepository co

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:31:51PM +0000, JC Tchitchiama wrote:
> Greetings folks,
>
> I hope this question has not been asked before if so apologies in advance and
> please just point me to the mail with hopefully some answers.
>
> Here is the problem:-
>
> o I have a script that has to request checkout for a number of repositorieS.
> o the script basically calls "svn chechout" many many time.
> o now each time the user is prompted for a password to enable the ssh
> connection to happen.
> o the trouble for me is that the same password is asked say 10 times
> o I thought asking for the password and storing it for the duration of the
> request using the options --username --password but I was told these options
> only works when the Subversion Filesystem is accessed via Dav.
>
> Has anybody come accross the same issue and how was it solve ?
> is --username --password also available for secured shell access to the
> repository ?

Use ssh-agent.

Matt

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