Re: Why is my svn+ssh:// access asking 4 passwd twice?

Matthew England wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (I figure this is a total newbie question from an ignorant user/admin,
> but I couldn't find it in the FAQ--yet--so I thought I'd ask it here...)
>
> Why is my "svn co svn+ssh://..." access asking for my ssh passwd twice
> (even when I do not mistype my password)?
>
> It seems that on the first password pass it creates a ".svn"
> subdirectory first and then asks for the password again to get the rest
> of the files.
>
> Any idea what's going on here?

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch06s03.html#svn-ch-6-sect-3.4

Last paragraph:

"A final note: when using svn+ssh:// URLs to access a repository,
remember that it's the ssh program prompting you for authentication, and
not the svn program. That means there's no automatic password caching
going on (see the section called “Client Credentials Caching”). If you
want to prevent ssh from repeatedly asking for your password, you'll
need to use a separate memory-caching tool like ssh-agent on a Unix-like
system, or pageant on Windows."

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