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Re: help: can't use ssh-agent with svnX

From: Michael Hanna <tao_at_spymac.com>
Date: 2004-08-21 11:01:33 CEST

hi, did you manage to figure out your problem? I'm doing the same thing
with svnX and when I use:

svn+ssh://localhost:9999

I get host verification failed

if I try:

svn+ssh://myremotehost.ca:9999

it asked for my remote password once then...

Permission Denied, please try again
Permission Denied, please try again
Permission Denied, please try again

which I suppose is correct

also if I try from a command-prompt:

svn list svn+ssh://myremotehost.ca:9999
tao@ myremotehost.ca's password:
svn: No repository found in 'svn+ssh://myremotehost.ca:9999'

which is really odd because I got this feedback message when I started
svnserve:

[lao:/Library/svn/conf] tao% svnserve -d -t -r /Library/svn
( success ( 1 2 ( ANONYMOUS EXTERNAL ) ( edit-pipeline ) ) )

svnserve settings
-----------------------

svnserve -d -t -r /Library/svn

SSHKeychain Settings:
-------------------------------
Tunnel Name: My SVN Tunnel
Local Port: 9999
Remote Hostname: myhostname.ca
Remote Port: 3690

SSH Hostname myhostname.ca(same as Remote Hostname)
SSH Port 22
SSH Username username

thanks for any help on this.
Michael

On 20-Aug-04, at 6:39 AM, Bill Bug wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> NB: Sorry for the duplicate post. The first was sent with the wrong
> reply email address, so I'd not likely pick up on any responses set
> directly to that address. List-admin - please post this one rather
> than the first. Thanks.
>
> Many thanks for all the valuable info folks have contributed to this
> list - and thanks especially to the developers of Subversion. It's
> superb!
>
> Sorry to be posting an ssh question again. I've seen many such posts
> here, but unfortunately not one that's solves my problem.
>
> I'm trying to use ssh-agent in the hope I'll be able to access my
> subversion repository with svnX - the very nice new GUI SVN client
> written for Mac OS X
> (http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/
> features/).
>
> There's also a ssh-agent Mac OS X GUI application, too, called
> SSH-Keychain (http://www.sshkeychain.org/) which helps to simplify use
> of ssh-agent. Basically, you define ssh "tunnel"s in the SSHKeychain
> preferences, and these can automatically cache your passphrase and
> keep an open ssh tunnel set up for you. Each tunnel is configured
> with the following info:
> Tunnel-
> human-readable name
> local port
> remote host
> remote port
> SSH-
> ssh host
> ssh port
> ssh username
>
> The SSH section is automatically set to the default SSH port 22. You
> just specify the host & username, and you're prompted for a password
> when you try to open this tunnel.
>
> The Tunnel section is where you set up access to your remote
> application. So, for instance, to connect to a PostgreSQL database
> server via JDBC on our remote host, I configure a tunnel as follows:
> name: "My PostgreSQL tunnel"
> local port: 9999
> remote host: our.remote.host
> remote port: 5432
>
> Now, I define a JDBC URL to connect to the local port which looks like
> this - jdbc:postgresql://localhost:9999/my-database. This is opposed
> to connecting directly to the same database via the standard
> PostgreSQL port 5432 on the remote machine with URL that looks like
> this - jdbc:postgresql://our.remote.host:5432/my-database
>
> This all works fine with SSHKeychain. I define the PostgreSQL tunnel,
> open it and login to the database using the URL
> jdbc:postgresql://localhost:9999/my-database. I'm simply forwarding
> the traffic being directed to my local port 9999 to port 5432 on my
> remote machine all within the encrypted SSH connection.
>
> I tried using the same process for SVN, applying an analogous approach.
>
> I defined the following SSHKeychain tunnel:
> name: "My SVN tunnel"
> local port: 9998
> remote host: our.remote.host
> remote port: 3690
>
> Then, running svn on the command line, I issued the following command:
>
> svn list svn://localhost:9998/path/to/svn/repository
>
> I can tell by watching IP packets (via tcpdump or Ethereal) I am
> getting data into the tunnel over to the remote machine. One
> encrypted packet gets over to the remote machine, one is immediately
> sent back, followed by a TCP ACK packet. That's it - end of
> conversation. On the command line, I get back the error "svn:
> Connection closed unexpectedly"
>
> If, on the other hand, I issue the 'svn list' to a URL going directly
> to the remote machine via the 'svn+ssh' protocol such as:
>
> svn list svn+ssh://our.remote.host/path/to/svn/repository
>
> I'm prompted for my password. Once entered, I get the repository list
> back the way I should.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on why this might be happening?
>
> I'm hoping if I get this running, I'll also be able to use not only
> the wonderful svnX GUI client, but also the svn plug-ins both for
> NetBeans v3.4.x & for Apple's IDE XCode v1.5. All three of these SVN
> client wrapper applications fail on me, when I try to log into the
> repository via the 'svn+ssh' protocol. I'm pretty certain this has to
> do with authentication based on the testing I've done which should be
> remedied if I can use my SSHKeychain tunnel the way I've been able to
> do successfully with PostgreSQL.
>
> Many thanks ahead of time for any help you can offer.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill Bug
>
> Bill Bug
> Senior Analyst/Ontological Engineer
>
> Laboratory for Bioimaging & Anatomical Informatics
> Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
> Drexel University College of Medicine
> 2900 Queen Lane
> Philadelphia, PA 19129
> 215 991 8430 (ph)
>
>
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