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Re: SVN is trying to access the X509 Keychain?

From: RM1X <rm1x_at_rogers.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:39:45 -0500

For anyone in the same boat, just regress to 1.3. Works out of the box,
no headaches!

RM1X wrote:
> Thanks for your continued help Andy.
>
> "Assuming you have an X509Anchors keychain as well as a login
> keychain,
> select the login keychain and then go to Preferences (Command-,). If
> "Set login keychain as default" isn't checked, check it, and try
> again."
>
>
> It's still a no-go unfortunately, surely I'm not the only SVN user
> that has run into such difficulties? Should I regress to a working
> version (prior to the horrible keychain hack that is billed as a
> powerful feature)?
>
> To recap, I issue:
> svn co --username abc --password 123 svn://localhost
>
> The abc/123 combo is something that following documentation, I
> configured in the passwd file. My svnserve daemon is running as user
> "svn". Having issued the command above, this causes a pop-up to
> appear, "Unlock Keychain":
> *** svn wants to use keychain "X509Anchors" ***
>
> No password that I can enter in this pop-up works. The root pass,
> admin pass, svn's pass...all no good. If I select the X509Anchors
> keychain in the "Keychain Access" app, the Edit->Change Password for
> Keychain selection is disabled.
>
> Thanks again!
>
>
> Andy Levy wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 2008 4:38 PM, RM1X <rm1x_at_rogers.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andy,
>>>
>>> That was extremely fast, thanks for the response. The issue is
>>> that
>>> I don't have the password to the X509Anchors keychain, I don't believe
>>> that it is one that should ever be used either way correct? I'm not an
>>> OS X poweruser myself, I just am stuck on an OS X environment for this
>>> particular project.
>>>
>>
>> Open up Keychain Access and look under Passwords > Application. That's
>> where my SVN creds are. I don't have any references to X509 in my
>> Keychain.
>>
>> Assuming you have an X509Anchors keychain as well as a login keychain,
>> select the login keychain and then go to Preferences (Command-,). If
>> "Set login keychain as default" isn't checked, check it, and try
>> again.
>>
>> This is all for OS X 10.5, I've never used 10.4. If the above b0rks
>> your system, this conversation never happened.
>
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