On Wednesday 18 October 2006 13:46, Mark Phippard wrote:
> Douglas Russell <douglas.russell@comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote on 10/18/2006
>
> 07:01:15 AM:
> > I wish to use the svn-ant task with svn+ssh URIs but currently it fails
>
> to
>
> > utilise either the username or password field in the ant script.
>
> Never used svnant, but I can shed some light based on Subclipse.
>
> The username and password parms do not apply to an SSH connection. The
> SSH client requires a username and password and the Subversion command
> line does not offer a way to pass that information into the client.
>
> > Svn : Copy
> > cp -r HEAD --force-log -m Branch-0.2 created
> > svn+ssh://myserver/var/svn/repos/connectfour
> > svn+ssh://myserver/var/svn/repos/connectfour-0.2 --username user1
>
> --password
>
> > ******* --non-interactive
> > Password:
> >
> > which is most definitely not non-interactive. Also, the user is always
>
> fed
>
> > through as the user executing ant, not the user set in the ant script.
>
> Again, this is the SSH client prompting you. The username for SSH will
> come from the configuration in the Subversion config.
>
> > If I run it from eclipse then the server side ssh logs show 3
>
> authentication
>
> > failures presumably because eclipse sent an empty password instead of
> > prompting like the command line.
>
> If you started Eclipse from a console, the prompt for password would
> appear back in the console. If you use a client that can do a GUI prompt,
> then you would see it.
>
> > As an aside, which seems unconnected, but I guess could be related...,
>
> when I
>
> > run this as an ant task from within eclipse using javahl="true" causes
>
> it to
>
> > use the javahl method, but on the command line, it always uses the
>
> command
>
> > line interface as in the above example. What could possibly cause that?
>
> Both
>
> > methods fail in the same way from within eclipse although the javahl
>
> error is
>
> > slightly more cryptic.
>
> JavaHL uses the same infrastructure as the command line, so it would also
> need to launch the SSH client. When you are running the script from the
> command line it probably just isn't finding the JavaHL library or some
> other required piece, and so it falls back to trying to use the command
> line client.
>
> Mark
That is the answer I was basically expecting, I'll just start using https for
this stuff. Thanks very much.
Cheers
Douglas
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Douglas PW Russell
Research Officer / Systems Administrator - GIMI
Research Officer / Systems Administrator - NeuroGrid
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Tel: +44 (0)1865 283519
email: douglas.russell@comlab.ox.ac.uk
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