auto authentication frustration

Hi All,

Thanks to all for your many helpful posts.

I've searched the list, however, as well as the Subversion RedBook and
the FAQ, but can't find a solution to my problem.

I'm using the svn+ssh protocol to access a remote Subversion repository.

Using the wonderful ssh-agent GUI wrapper for Mac OS X SSHKeychain, I
need not enter my passphrase everytime I ssh into the remote host.

Unfortunately, despite using the default .subversion/config setting to
cache my authentication, I neither find any authentication info stored
at ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple svn.ssl.server or svn.username, nor
can I access the remote SVN repository without entering the password
that goes with my user on the remote machine.

I found a post here mentioning when using the svn+ssh protocol, I
should not expect to find cached auth files, since with this protocol
the client-side authentication is all handled by ssh.

Why do I still need to enter my password once the ssh tunnel to the
remote machine is activated? Since this protocol essentially runs
'svnserve -t' on the remote machine, does this means I need to cache my
svn authentication in my remote user's ~/.subversion/auth directory?

I greatly appreciate any info you have to offer that can clear up my
ignorance. I'm troubleshooting this auth-caching for a large group of
about a dozen people who I'd like to move to SVN, but they aren't happy
about all the authenticating they need to do even when running over an
encrypted pipe.

Many thanks for any help you have to offer.

Cheers,
Bill

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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Received on Mon Oct 11 19:18:13 2004