RE: svn+ssh:// asks for password twice

mark benedetto king wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:55:57PM +0100, Roger Lipscombe wrote:
> >
> > When I checkout my repository with svn+ssh://, I'm asked for my
> > password
> > twice:
> >
>
> Some operations open two repository connections, rather than one.
>
> This turns into to ssh invocations, which means you'll get
> prompted twice.

OK. That's fair enough, I suppose.

> It is extremely unlikely that this will be changed before 1.0.

OK.

> If this is particularly problematic for you, you might want
> to investigate using public-key authentication and
> "ssh-agent", perhaps coupled with something like "keychain".

Yeah, I've got ssh-agent and authorized_keys configured on my other boxen --
just not for localhost. I don't tend to ssh into 'localhost'. There seems
to be very little point, since I'm usually sitting in front of it :-)

OT: What's this "keychain" thing you refer to?

Regards,
Roger.

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Received on Wed Oct 15 23:33:15 2003