Hi Bert,
Firstly, thanks for the reply.
It seems that deleting the cached credentials and recreating them, did the trick.
I (obviously) didn't ever manually create the cache or edit it myself.
I assumed that changing to the new URL would simply create a new credential "set" for that URL and was, thus, surprised when it kept asking me to authenticate with any svn operation.
I don't know if that is expected behaviour or perhaps a bug that needs some attention?
As always - thanks!
Gavin.
On 30/09/2011, at 6:17 PM, Bert Huijben wrote:
> Passwords are stored per hostname (+realm), not per working copy like in your webbrowser, so using a different hostname requires adding a new username+password in your credential cache.
>
> Storing it in a different way would allow tricking subversion to send the username and password to any other server…
>
> Bert
>
> From: Gavin Baumanis [mailto:gavinb_at_thespidernet.com]
> Sent: vrijdag 30 september 2011 5:14
> To: Subversion Users
> Subject: Authentication realm
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We recently created a DNS entry for our subversion repository.
> Prior to this we just use the private LAN IP address to access the repo via http (Apache)
>
> Post the change to having a hostname to use I created a new branch - and used the host name to do this.
>
> Subsequently when I perform an svn update I a now prompted for username and password for the named instance of our repo.
> I did some reading in the "good" book.
> and used svn switch
> (svn switch old_IP_address new_HostName_Address
>
> at the root of my working copy.
> svn info confirms that the repo address is now set to the hostname version of the URL.
>
> However I am still getting prompted for a username and password.
> If I enter the "usual" password - all is good... but the prompt is playing havoc without Continuous Integration scripts.
>
> Some more reading suggests that I might need to add a new authentication realm and users via; conf/svnserve.conf
>
> I was hoping that I might just get some confirmation that is indeed what I need to do - before I go "playing" with the config scripts.
>
> As always - a big thanks for your help.
>
> Gavin.
Received on 2011-09-30 13:33:44 CEST