On 07.07.2014 10:51, Julian Foad wrote:
> Branko Čibej wrote:
>> On 07.07.2014 10:27, Julian Foad wrote:
>>> Aha! But Subversion already has a way to read authn creds from a file:
>>>
>>> --config-dir=x
>>>
>>> All we're lacking is a convenient way to put the required creds into
>>> the file. A user interface could be:
>>>
>>> svn auth authenticate $REPO_URL
>>>
>>> or, if you insist on being able to cache a user name and password when you
>>> don't currently have access to the server:
>>>
>>> svn auth authenticate $REPO_URL --force --username=y --password=z
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>> Won't work given how we currently store credentials. The credentials key
>> is not the URL, it's the realmstring, which you (in general) will not
>> know without actually contacting the server.
> OK, right. To be clear, you mean the *second* thing I wrote (the --force variant) won't work. The first will.
Yes, certainly.
There are other uses for your proposed "svn auth authenticate" command,
though. For example, it would be really nice if users could register a
trusted server cert before contacting the server, and register a client
cert for a realm before contacting the server, too. For example, we
currently do not even store client certs in the credentials store, only
their passphrases; which is rather unfortunate, to put it mildly.
-- Brane
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Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion
WANdisco // Non-Stop Data
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Received on 2014-07-07 11:08:55 CEST