Re: Need help troubleshooting user authentication (apache)

Cooke, Mark wrote on Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 14:44:31 -0000:
> [Wed Jan 12 10:06:38 2011] [error] [client ip-address] user user_a:
> authentication failure for "/svn/dept/project/trunk": Password Mismatch
>
> I do not understand where the 'Password Mismatch' error is coming from,
> why does that only happen when using subversion and not the browser? I
> have tried searching for "rejected Basic challenge" (both svn.haxx.se
> and the wider net) but I've not found anything that hes helped so far.
...
> What can I do to try to work out what the problem is? It is only svn
> and (currently) for only this one user... I'd really appreciate any
> help at this point.

* Have you tried creating a new OS user for that one user?

* Yes, may be a good idea to look up where "Password Mismatch" is
  generated. (I haven't heard of it before, but I don't claim to have
  heard of all typical syslog messages.)
Received on 2011-03-09 17:48:53 CET