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

From: Jeremy Wall <jwall_at_google.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:22:48 -0500

There was no password-stores line in my config file. I had to add a
password-stores line to the file to disable it. Is there a second config
file it might be pulling from that I'm unaware of?

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Varnau, Steve (Neoview) <
steve.varnau_at_hp.com> wrote:

> 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> 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]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:09 AM
> *To:* 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
>
>
>
> Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
>
> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
>
> This product includes software developed by CollabNet (
> http://www.Collab.Net/).
>
>
>
> The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
>
>
>
> * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
> Neon.
>
> - handles 'http' scheme
>
> - handles 'https' scheme
>
> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network
> protocol.
>
> - with Cyrus SASL authentication
>
> - handles 'svn' scheme
>
> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
>
> - handles 'file' scheme
>
>
>
>
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
Received on 2010-07-13 18:23:54 CEST

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