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RE: Troubleshooting Gnome keyring

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_vmoo.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:54:00 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nkadel_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: woensdag 19 december 2012 04:42
> To: Mark Phippard
> Cc: Aubrey Barnard; users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Troubleshooting Gnome keyring
>
> 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.

Nico, when the user uses svn+ssh:// the Subversion authentication handling
isn't used. I don't think your binaries add gnome keyring support to the
system default ssh?

        Bert
Received on 2012-12-19 15:44:25 CET

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