Re: Ubuntu: store user credentials for svn-client

On 2010-09-14 09:47, bebop52 wrote:
> Thank you Larry, sorry for the late reply (holidays).
> I'm still struggling with the same problem. Here is the whole error-
> message (I translated the German parts) commiting a Change in a
> Latexfile with Emacs VC from Ubuntu 10.04:

Hi,

you don't need to translate anything if you run Subversion in an English
locale setting:

env LANG=en_US.utf8 svn ...

To find out what locales are available, run "locale -a".

> """Login: <https://xyz.googlecode.com:443> Google Code Subversion
> Repository
> Password for »myLinuxUsername«: Login: <https://xyz.googlecode.com:
> 443> Google Code Subversion Repository
> Username: svn: Transmission failed (Details folllow):
> svn: MKACTIVITY from »/svn/!svn/act/
> 87b61f4b-1512-4235-82d2-6541103d5e74«: Authorisation failed: Could not
> authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge (https://
> xyz.googlecode.com)"""
>
> I did not change anything in my
> ~/.subversion/servers
> file, so everything is commented out.
>
> In my
> ~/.subversion/config
> file I have something like this:
>
> [groups]
> # group1 = *.collab.net
> myProject = https://xyz.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
> # myProject = https://xyz.googlecode.com/ did not work either

What about the following?

myProject = xyz.googlecode.com

> ### Information for myProject:
> [myProject]
> # http-proxy-host = proxy1.some-domain-name.com
> # http-proxy-port = 80
> # http-proxy-username = blah
> # http-proxy-password = doubleblah
> # http-timeout = 60
> # http-auth-types = basic;digest;negotiate #uncommenting this did not
> work
> # neon-debug-mask = 130
> store-plaintext-passwords = yes #don't care about secutity in this
> case
> username = myGoogleCodeUsername
>
> Authentication should use myGoogleCodeUsername instead of
> myLinuxUsername and prompt me for a password (?)
> So my (very basic newbie) question remains:
> How do I configure subversion on Ubuntu 10.04 to be able to
> authenticate to a GoogleCode Repository?
> Thanks for any help.

What's in the "[auth]" section of your ~/.subversion/config?

You should be able to disable support for GNOME Keyring (and KDE Wallet,
for that matter) altogether by specifying "password-stores" accordingly
in the "[auth]" section of your config file, like so:

  [auth]
  password-stores = keychain,windows-cryptoapi

http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#plaintext-passwords

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.netmodel.html#svn.serverconfig.netmodel.credcache

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.confarea.html#svn.advanced.confarea.layout

Here's the beginning of a fresh ~/.subversion/config file. You can have
svn generate one if you just move the existing ~/.subversion out of the
way first:

  $ mv ~/.subversion ~/.subversion.keep.me
  $ svn ls http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion
  $ cat ~/.subversion/config

### This file configures various client-side behaviors.
###
### The commented-out examples below are intended to demonstrate
### how to use this file.

### Section for authentication and authorization customizations.
[auth]
### Set password stores used by Subversion. They should be
### delimited by spaces or commas. The order of values determines
### the order in which password stores are used.
### Valid password stores:
### gnome-keyring (Unix-like systems)
### kwallet (Unix-like systems)
### keychain (Mac OS X)
### windows-cryptoapi (Windows)
# password-stores = gnome-keyring,kwallet
###
### Set KWallet wallet used by Subversion. If empty or unset,
### then the default network wallet will be used.
# kwallet-wallet =
###
### Include PID (Process ID) in Subversion application name when
### using KWallet. It defaults to 'no'.
# kwallet-svn-application-name-with-pid = yes
###
### The rest of this section in this file has been deprecated.
### Both 'store-passwords' and 'store-auth-creds' can now be
### specified in the 'servers' file in your config directory.
### Anything specified in this section is overridden by settings
### specified in the 'servers' file.
###
### Set store-passwords to 'no' to avoid storing passwords in the
### auth/ area of your config directory. It defaults to 'yes',
### but Subversion will never save your password to disk in
### plaintext unless you tell it to (see the 'servers' file).
### Note that this option only prevents saving of *new* passwords;
### it doesn't invalidate existing passwords. (To do that, remove
### the cache files by hand as described in the Subversion book.)
# store-passwords = no
### Set store-auth-creds to 'no' to avoid storing any subversion
### credentials in the auth/ area of your config directory.
### It defaults to 'yes'. Note that this option only prevents
### saving of *new* credentials; it doesn't invalidate existing
### caches. (To do that, remove the cache files by hand.)
# store-auth-creds = no

...

-- 
Michael Diers, elego Software Solutions GmbH, http://www.elego.de