Re: [PATCH] Fix issue #2324

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Senthil Kumaran S <senthil_at_collab.net> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
>
> David Glasser wrote:
> > 2008/3/25 Senthil Kumaran S <senthil_at_collab.net>:
> >>
>
> >> I am attaching a patch along with this email which will fix issue #2324. This
> >> adds a new parameter 'username' to the subversion config file.
> >
>
> > I think this would go better in ~/.subversion/servers.
>
> Can the username parameter be something like the following in
> ~/.subversion/servers?
>
> <snip>
> [groups]
> group1 = *.collab.net
> othergroup = repository.blarggitywhoomph.com
>
> ### Information for the first group:
> [group1]
> http-proxy-host = proxy1.some-domain-name.com
> http-proxy-port = 80
> http-proxy-username = blah
> http-proxy-password = doubleblah
> http-timeout = 60
> http-auth-types = basic;digest;negotiate
> neon-debug-mask = 130
> username = stylesen
>
> ### Information for the second group:
> [othergroup]
> http-proxy-host = proxy2.some-domain-name.com
> http-proxy-port = 9000
> username = harry
>
> [global]
> http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
> http-proxy-host = defaultproxy.whatever.com
> http-proxy-port = 7000
> http-proxy-username = defaultusername
> http-proxy-password = defaultpassword
> username = sally
> </snip>

Yup, that's the sort of thing I'm thinking about.

(This makes me think that this also would be a reasonable place to put
an "always-authenticate" option, which can avoid this issue (both on
DAV and svnserve) where anonymous access is allowed but some files are
unreadable, and svn doesn't ask the user to authenticate until too
late...)

--dave

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