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

Matthew England wrote:

> What's pageant?

Pageant is a public/private key management system for putty. It
securely stores public/private keys for ssh so that you can use that
instead of having to use username/passwords for all of your ssh
connections. If you are confident that your development machine is
relatively secure then I would look into this because it's waaaay more
convenient than username/passwords.

>> Sounds to me like subversion has to make multiple connections to
>> perform some operations, each of which is a separate repository access
>
>
> ...but _why_?

Read this archived post:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-05/0836.shtml

Two reasons: the first is that it could lead to greater performance
throttling a few SSH connections. two, as the above post illustrates,
it's just easier sometimes. Most people use a key-manager like Pageant
to handle this so they really don't experience the multiple logins for
too long (because yes it is really annoying).

-Tim Gebhardt

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Received on Tue Apr 12 11:21:43 2005