--username not honored with svn+ssh:// transport

For some reason, only the current effective UID is honored ($USER) when
svn(1) sub-exec's ssh(1).

This is really inconvienent in light of the fact that "propset mode"
refuses to work on a lot of platforms.

So you end up "sudo -H svn [...]"'ing a lot of commands to work around
permissions problems on working copies and ./.svn/*; which has the
side-effect of breaking a lot of automated authenticaiton (ssh-agent,
etc.)

Shouldn't the "remote ssh-user" be recorded/cached in authentication
tokens?

Another possibility is supporting the 'username@' in the
svn+ssh://username[:...]@ufqdn/path

Or, just make "--username=" get passed to ssh(1) "-u".

l8*
         -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
                http://www.spiritual-machines.org/

"...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota"
meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages
of laser printout - and frequently were."

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Received on Thu Feb 22 17:32:04 2007