Bert Huijben wrote on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 21:56:11 +0000:
> Does your server support anonymous read only connections?
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> If it allows those, it is completely expected that it doesn't use a
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> updates/stores passwords in that case.
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... and if you want the full log, a easy workaround is to set up a
second <Location>, for the same repository, that doesn't permit
anonymous access.
Daniel
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> Bert
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> From: Schulz, Gunther
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 4:05 PM
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
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> Hello,
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> I detected an unexpected behaviour of the subversion client (Debian 7.7, svn version 1.6.12 (r955767)):
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> The configuration settings of store-plaintext-passwords (yes/ask/no) are only validated if I execute svn commands like checkout or update, but not for a simple ‘svn log’ command:
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> - the password file in auth/svn.simple were not generated
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> - strangely I was asked if I want to store the hostkey certificate which worked seemlessly
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> - when using a ‘svn update’ or ‘svn checkout’ the expected behaviour was seen (prompt for saving or save automatically)
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> Usually this is not detected as one of the first calls are update or checkout commands, but I used here some scripting using ‘svn log’ and was wondering why my password was never updated, no matter where I changed the save-plaintext-passwords settings (/etc/subversion/servers or ~/.subversion/servers, global section or specific local server sections).
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> I assume this is a bug or at least a strange feature. Normally I would expect that the same authentication procedure is used for all the remote svn commands which require authentication against the server.
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> Please let me know if you need some traces or configuration settings…
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> BTW: Subversion server was running on a Windows server machine, access via WebDAV / https
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> Best regards,
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> Gunther
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