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Re: Auth problems

From: Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk>
Date: 2003-09-19 17:31:21 CEST

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 10:03, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>> > 1. If I set "store-password = no" in ~/.subversion.config and then
>> > attempt to checkout I get prompted to enter my password three
>> > times (or only twice if I checkout revision 0). I expected the
>> > credentials to get cached in memory even when I ask for them not
>> > to be cached on disk.
>>
>> This is due to a weirdness in ra_dav: if a PROPFIND on a path fails,
>> it keeps retrying the request on every single parent. This is the
>> "real" problem that needs solving, so be sure to notate that in any
>> issue you file.
>
> Are you sure it's not because a checkout uses multiple ra sessions, when
> it used to use only one?

That would explain two prompts (although I'd still describe it as a
bug) but not three

$ svnadmin create /tmp/repo
$ svn mkdir file:///tmp/repo/foo
$ svn co http://localhost:8888/tmp/repo wc
Authentication realm: <http://localhost:8888> Subversion Repository
Password for 'pm':
Authentication realm: <http://localhost:8888> Subversion Repository
Password for 'pm':
A wc/foo
Authentication realm: <http://localhost:8888> Subversion Repository
Password for 'pm':
Checked out revision 1.

-- 
Philip Martin
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