Hi
My apologies, Mark is correct.
Is there a feature request logged against subversion for an API to delete credentials?
A quick search of their issue tracker doesn't turn up anything promising.
Regards, Noel Grandin.
Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Noel Grandin <noel_at_peralex.com> wrote:
>> This is a long standing issue with subclipse.
> Your information below is all incorrect.
>
>> The issue is that subclipse will not ask you for a username/password if the
>> anonymous account has default read-access.
> No Subversion client will. It is impossible to provide Subversion
> with credentials if the server is anonymous read access. The
> Subversion client never pushes credentials to the server, it only
> responds to challenges from the server and the server does not send
> the challenge when read is anonymous. For example this works fine:
>
> svn co --username bogus --password bogus
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/svnpatch
>
>> This means that it is not possible to checkout a repository under your own
>> username, which in turn means that it is not possible to commit.
> Besides being incorrect for the previous reason, this would also be
> incorrect if the repository requires username and password.
> Subversion does not store anything about the user that checked out the
> working copy. Go ahead and try it. Zip up a working copy and give it
> to a colleague. They can unzip it and use it fine. In a shared
> environment you can even both work in the same working copy.
>
>> The only solution (that I know of) is to checkout use the command-line
>> subversion client, and then create a project in eclipse using that
>> directory, at which point subclipse will pick up the correct credentials.
> The only real issue is that Subversion does not provide any API's or
> user interface to work with its credentials cache. So you cannot ask
> it to delete the credentials for a certain site. This is mainly an
> issue if you do something like access a site as one user and then want
> to switch to some other user. Subclipse used to ask you to store the
> username and pasword in Eclipse but this made things way worse than
> they are today. When things would happen like your password needing
> to be changed you lose the ability to be prompted to change it and
> since the cache is shared amongst all Subversion clients you lose the
> ability to have those changes automatically reflect in all clients.
> If the server disables accounts for invalid passwords it was also a
> common problem that this would happen because there is no error or
> prompt given when the credentials are being suppiled to the API
> instead of being handled via the callback.
>
> I wish there was an API to delete credentials so that we could provide
> UI to do this, but there isn't. So you have to delete them manually
> today. In an environment where you only have one user account this
> should never be a real problem.
>
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Received on 2011-03-22 15:32:50 CET