Re: TSVN asks for password over and over and over...

Eric Poole wrote:

> I'm a little confused. When I get the dialog box asking for my
> password, is that TortoiseSVN that provides that dialog box, or the ssh
> client, or Subversion (on the server machine over on the other side of
> town)?

It's the ssh client. TortoiseSVN installs a modified version of plink
(TortoisePlink) which it uses. The reason we use a modified version is
that the original plink is a console application which would pop up an
ugly console window for every repository access. TortoisePlink hides
that console window.

> All I did on this machine is install TortoiseSVN. I didn't install
> Subversion or PuTTY (to my knowledge ... unless the TSVN installer did
> that for me).
>
> All I really need is for TortoiseSVN (or the ssh client) to store my
> password for the duration of the current session, and then forget about it.

As the FAQ explains, you should install pageant. That's a tool from
putty which caches your ssh authentication data during your logon session.

> I am wondering if this could not be done by the following...
>
> 1. Identify the class that provides, and reads from, the dialog box
> that asks for the password;
>
> 2. Insert a private variable into the class, that holds the password
> the user entered;
>
> 3. Initialize that variable to NULL on TSVN startup (so that it always
> forgets the last password entry);
>
> 4. When executing the method that presents the dialog box asking for
> the password, first look at that variable and if it's not NULL, use its
> contents instead of presenting the dialog box.

As I explained before: that's not possible. Subversion never even sees
the authentication because plink (the ssh client) does this *outside* of
the Subversion process.

Stefan

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