On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
But the "gnome-keyring" is supposed to manage this for you with Gnome
up and running. Aubry, which Subversion are you using? I've published,
SRPM tools at https://github.com/nkadel/subversion-1.6.18-srpm which
you may find useful to build a fully equipped Subveriosn 1.6.18,
compatible with Red Hat's, but with all the latest features such as
gnome-keyring support as much as can be activated with RHEL 5.
Alternatively, jump to RHEL 6 or Scientific Linux 6, both of with have
better support for such modern tools.
Received on 2012-12-19 04:49:18 CET