On Oct 16, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Christian Schaffner wrote:
>> On 25.09.2006, at 11:31, Felix Ritter wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mac users,
>>>
>>> the new keychain support in subversion 1.4 is giving me a hard
>>> time. I've some automated builds using svn that are started via
>>> cron deamon (Mac OS 10.4.7). Since the cron jobs runs as a user
>>> who never actually unlocked the keychain tool (e.g. by login into
>>> a MacOS desktop session), the svn checkout or update stops with
>>> prompting the user for a keyword to unlock the keychain (the
>>> repository is accessed via https). Thus the whole build process
>>> hangs. Any advice on how to use svn on MacOS in automated
>>> processes like this would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Felix
>
> I am the author of the Fink svn packages, which I updated to svn
> 1.4.0 recently. I am having exactly the same problem, since we run
> an automated script that updates our internal test web site every
> time we check something into svn. The user of the script is 'www'
> which doesn't have a keychain. Did you find a solution to that
> problem? Anybody else?
One workaround, although somewhat inconvenient, is to use a 1.3
client to authenticate for the first time (thereby caching the
credentials in plain-text) and then use a 1.4 client for further
access (which will use the cached credentials as-is).
--
Christopher Elkins
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Received on Tue Oct 17 00:23:35 2006