On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 13:08, Matt Harp wrote:
> Complete newbe here trying to do some integration into Subversion.
>
> I setup my server and am running svnserve on a Windows box.
>
> I have two main questions.
>
> 1. When I have anon-access set to read, I can execute a call like
>
> svn -ls --username fred --password blah
>
> Where the info I give for login is bad, but I never get an error from
> svn client. It just returns the results of the ls call? Shouldn't it be
> failing since my login was bad?
SVN isn't like CVS: the client doesn't "push" authentication to the
server; rather, the server "pulls" it from the client only when it
deems necessary.
The --username/--password argument are *only* used if the server
challenges the client in the first place. Otherwise they're ignored.
>
> 2. How can I stop svn from prompting on a bad login attempt? I set
> anon-access to none and now when I give a bad user/pwd I get prompted
> for both username and password. It would seem there should be a flag to
> tell svn to just fail with an error message w/o having to prompt.
Again, you're trying to do something anonymously, so the server sends a
challenge, because anonymous access isn't allowed. That causes the
client to prompt you. After 3 failed prompting attempts, the client
gives up, and the whole operation fails. It's all working exactly as it
should -- just the way a web browser does.
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Received on Fri Jul 30 20:16:40 2004