authorization failed- one problem and its solution

Posting this here so the problem and it's solution are documented where
people might find it.

I'd been having serious problems connecting to an SVN repository. I tried
tortoisesvn from two different machines, two different versions of windows
command line svn (1.4.3 and 1.4.5) each on two different machines, and
command line svn on a linux machine. In every case I was getting something
like:

C:\>svn info http://foo.com/svn/blah/
Authentication realm: <http://foo.com:80> Repository
Username: user
Password for 'user': ********
Authentication realm: <http://pvg.unfuddle.com:80> Unfuddle Repository
Username: user
Password for 'user': ********
Authentication realm: <http://pvg.unfuddle.com:80> Unfuddle Repository
Username: user
Password for 'user': ********
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/blah'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/blah': authorization failed (http://foo.com)

After a day and a half of looking aroung the net and experimenting
I eventually tried the non-interactive version:

  svn checkout http://foo.com/svn/blah/ blah --username user --password xyz123) --non-interactive

and got this error message:

  Too many )'s.

I tried it again with "xyz123)" and got no error message but still
couldn't connect. Then, just for the heck of it, I changed my password to
get gid of the ), and suddenly everything worked! Worked from linux,
worked from windows command line, and worked from tortoisesvn! PROBLEM
SOLVED!

So, if you're having svn client auth problems and nothing else seems to
fix them, try changing your password and maybe that will do the trick.

I don't know whether it's just the right paren that causes problems or if
there are other non-alpha-numeric characters that could also cause it to
choke. I know there are some that work just fine.

         -Chris

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