Re: Offer re-prompt to change user authn after failed commit?

On 06.02.2017 16:42, Karl Fogel wrote:
> (Replying to Stefan here, but thanks also to Philipp Mott for his reply, which said basically the same thing.)
>
> On 2017-02-03, Stefan Küng wrote:
>> Sorry, there's not re-prompt feature implemented.
>> Subversion only asks for authentication (username/password) if
>> necessary. Since auth data is already stored locally, it uses that data
>> to authenticate. But the authentication succeeds! So it doesn't ask the
>> user for authentication anymore.
>> The problem is that the authorization later fails, which comes much
>> later than the authentication.
>
> Thank you. Yes, I understand the problem. But TortoiseSVN could still re-prompt, using this recipe:
>
> 1) Perform default authentication
>
> 2) Attempt the authz-requiring operation (e.g., commit)
>
> 3) If (2) fails, look at the exact error, and...
>
> 4) ...if it's an authz error, prompt again for new authn
> credentials and continue as if from (1).

That's certainly possible to do. Not as easy as it sounds, but
definitely possible.

> Even though authorization comes later than authentication, TortoisSVN can still remember things and link them together when it's appropriate to do so.
[snip]
> It definitely helps to have these workarounds. But if you think the above proposed new behavior is a good idea, could we file an enhancement ticket in the tracker? I realize maybe no one has time to implement it right now (and I have zero Windows development chops, unfortunately), but at least having the ticket filed provides a starting point, and would give people something to refer to.

I've opened a ticket for this:
https://sourceforge.net/p/tortoisesvn/tickets/703/

Stefan

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