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RE: Possible bug in svn's gnome-keyring support?

From: Varnau, Steve (Neoview) <steve.varnau_at_hp.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:15:20 +0000

It should only use gnome if it is specified in your config file (~/.subversion/config):

password-stores = gnome-keyring

-Steve

From: Jeremy Wall [mailto:jwall_at_google.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:11 AM
To: Varnau, Steve (Neoview)
Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug in svn's gnome-keyring support?

The strangeness is it's insistence on using the Gnome Keyring despite me not using Gnome. Is this the expected default behaviour?
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Varnau, Steve (Neoview) <steve.varnau_at_hp.com<mailto:steve.varnau_at_hp.com>> wrote:
Jeremy,

If svn is configured to use a Gnome keyring, then it is trying to store the password you are giving on the command line in the keyring. Hence it is prompting for the gnome-keyring password. If you also specify –no-auth-cache, then you might not get a prompt.

-Steve

From: Jeremy Wall [mailto:jwall_at_google.com<mailto:jwall_at_google.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:09 AM
To: users_at_subversion.apache.org<mailto:users_at_subversion.apache.org>
Subject: Possible bug in svn's gnome-keyring support?

Hi,

I noticed after updating svn to version 1.6.6 that svn now has gnome-keyring support.

However It seems to ignore the --username --password flags if that support is enabled. I don't use the gnome-keyring or even gnome but subversion refused to let me commit until I turned off password-stores in the config despite giving it a valid username and password. Instead it would prompt for the gnome-keyring password which is not set up for me and refuse to continue until I successfully authenticated to the keyring.

This seems like the wrong behavior to me. Is it intended?

Here is my subversion information:

svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053)
   compiled Dec 12 2009, 05:06:12

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Jeremy

Received on 2010-07-13 18:17:54 CEST

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