Re: Password mismatch

peppergrower wrote:
> I just set up a Subversion repository that uses basic authentication
> over SSL. Going directly to the repository's URL in my web browser
> (Firefox), I'm prompted for a username and password, and once I enter
> them I'm taken to the repository.
>
> However, when I try to connect to the same URL using TortoiseSVN, and
> enter the same username and password, it fails to authenticate. (I
> get prompted repeatedly to retry logging in.) Looking at my Apache
> error logs, I see the following message:
>
> user peppergrower: authentication failure for "/svn/repo-name":
> Password Mismatch
>
> I've verified (multiple times) that I'm entering a valid username and
> password by successfully connecting with Firefox instead. Am I
> missing some reason why TortoiseSVN can't authenticate?

Subversion transmits username and password in utf8 encoding. If you have
non-ascii chars in either of those, you must save the apache config file
in utf8 encoding too.

Stefan

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