Re: Troubleshooting Gnome keyring

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Aubrey Barnard <barnard_at_cs.wisc.edu> wrote:

> I am having trouble getting Subversion to work with the Gnome keyring and
> would like some advice on how to troubleshoot the situation. At this point I
> have tried everything I can find (Google, these archives), so I need to find
> how/where things are failing.
>
> I am using the svn+ssh protocol to access a server within my organization.
> Even with what I understand is the proper configuration, I am still prompted
> for my SSH password and Subversion never mentions a keyring or asks for a
> keyring password. The environment is RHEL 6, so I expected this to work
> out-of-the-box with the default svn. More information is below.

Subversion does not really do any authentication when you use SSH, so
there are no credentials for it to cache and none of those settings
come into play.

When you use SSH, the authentication process is managed by your SSH
client. I think most Unix users use something like ssh-agent to
manage their keys and I believe there are flavors of that which
interact with a GUI such as GNOME.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/