RE: Checking whether credentials are valid?

It’s only part of the answer, at best, but on a Windows system you can check when the current user’s password was last set using the following command (from a Command Prompt):
                net user %UserName% /domain | findstr "/c:Password last set"

The response will be similar to the following:
Password last set 10/02/2016 11:36:42

N.B. The format will likely be region dependant and need to be parsed to be useful. The date/time of the password change could then be compared to the date/time of the previous time the task was performed. That would allow the user to be alerted to the fact that the password has been changed since the last run.

HTH,
Bruce

From: Ron W [mailto:ronw.mrmx_at_gmail.com]
Sent: 06 October 2016 17:17
To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Checking whether credentials are valid?

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Niemann, Hartmut <hartmut.niemann_at_siemens.com<mailto:hartmut.niemann_at_siemens.com>> wrote:
We use the Windows domain passwort for authentication in TortoiseSVN.

One update process (for a tool directory) is run as a task (normally without user interaction) at login time,
using TSVN’s command line tools.

I would suggest that, for an automatic update, you use the command line SVN client. This will give you more control over what happens during automated operations.

This fails (i.e. it asks for a password but there is no command window and the user can not interact)
when the windows password was recently changed and has not yet been entered in TSVN.

Is there a way to check whether the password is still current, without prompting the user for a new one?
Then we could check before the update and abort cleanly.

As far as I know, no.

However, this is really a question for an expert Windows administrator. If your company's IT helpdesk is unable to help, I'd suggest asking at Stackoverflow or the Microsoft Developer Network forum (or, if there is one, Microsoft Administrators Network forum).

Bruce Clark
Senior Software Engineer

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