How can I make subversion reset the stored passwords/users and remember my authentication credential
- by NicDumZ
Hello folks!
Background: I used to have everything working just fine on my fresh install:
$ svn co https://domain:443/ test1
Error validating server certificate for 'https://domain:443':
- The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
Certificate information:
- Hostname: **REMOVED**
- Valid: **REMOVED**
- Issuer: **REMOVED**
- Fingerprint: **checked with issuer and REMOVED**
(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? p
Authentication realm: <https://domain:443> Subversion repository
Password for 'nicdumz-machine-hostname':
Authentication realm: <https://domain:443> Subversion repository
Username: nicdumz
Password for 'nicdumz':
# proceeds to checkout correctly
$ svn co https://domain:443/ test2
# checkouts nicely, without asking for my password.
At some point I needed to commit stuff using a different account. So I did that
$ svn ci --username other.user
Authentication realm: <https://domain:443> Subversion repository
Password for 'other.user':
# works fine
But since then, everytime I want to commit as 'nicdumz' (default user, all repos have been checked-out with that user), it prompts me for my password:
$ svn ci
Authentication realm: <https://domain:443> Subversion repository
Password for 'nicdumz':
Hey come on, why :) The same happens if I want a fresh checkout, since read-access is also protected.
So I tried fixing the issue by myself. I read around that ~/.subversion/auth was storing credentials, so I removed it from the way:
$ cd ~/.subversion
$ mv auth oldauth
$ mkdir auth
It seemed to work at first, because svn had forgotten about certificate validation:
$ svn co https://domain:443/ test3
Error validating server certificate for 'https://domain:443':
- The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
Certificate information:
- Hostname: **REMOVED**
- Valid: **REMOVED**
- Issuer: **REMOVED**
- Fingerprint: **checked with issuer and REMOVED**
(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? p
Authentication realm: <https://domain:443> Subversion repository
Password for 'nicdumz-machine-hostname':
Authentication realm: <https://domain:443> Subversion repository
Username: nicdumz
Password for 'nicdumz':
# proceeds to checkout correctly
$ svn up
Authentication realm: <https://domain:443> Subversion repository
Password for 'nicdumz':
What? how is this happening?
If you have suggestions to investigate more about the behaviour, I am very interested. If I'm correct, there is no way to do a verbose svn up or anything of the like, so I'm not sure should I go for investigation. Oh, and for what it's worth:
$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053)
compiled Oct 26 2009, 06:19:08
Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).
The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
- handles 'http' scheme
- handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- with Cyrus SASL authentication
- handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf.
- handles 'http' scheme
- handles 'https' scheme
