I will try to reproduce it again tomorrow. Anyone want to volunteer an RA_DAV
repository w/ a user name and password?
I know this happened to me at work.
Thanks.
Shamim Islam
BA BS
Ben Collins-Sussman (sussman@collab.net) wrote:
>
>Jack Repenning <jrepenning@collab.net> writes:
>
>> Someone else recently asked 'why does it cache login failures,' with
>> similar error indications.
>>
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=45726
>> "Removing cached authentication tokens "
>>
>> If that's the same problem: there are hints there about cleaning up
>> the situation once it develops, but no insight into how it arose.
>
>Yeah, it's a mystery, because if you look at the code,
>
> 1. failed credentials should never be cached. bad credentials
> cause neon to re-ask for them, which causes the svn auth system
> to re-prompt. Eventually the svn auth system gives up on
> re-prompting and just throws an error back to neon, which means
> neon throws an error, which means the client dies. There's no
> opportunity to save them to disk.
>
> 2. if password changes on the server, the credentials on disk are
> bogus. but this just causes the auth system to revert to
> prompting.
>
>We still seem to have no reproduction recipe for this bug...
>
>
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