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Re: svn+ssh requests password 3 times

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2007-02-15 23:05:59 CET

On Feb 15, 2007, at 16:03, Anne Hammond wrote:

> I'm pretty familiar with ssh, generating and installing keys,
> etc.
>
> If you do a straight ssh svnhost, you are only asked for your
> password once. I think it is using keyboard-interactive/pam
> authentication by default.
>
> So is svn asking ssh to try a different authentication method??

I believe Subversion merely needs to make multiple connections to do
its thing. Since Subversion cannot cache ssh passwords, it must ask
you for the password each time, if you haven't generated keys and so
forth.

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