Re: username does not work

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 10:52, Thomas Sorgie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My team uses subversion on windows with an svnserve
> server running on w2k.  The clients are a combination
> of w2k and xp.  We are running svn, version 0.30.0
> (r7178) on both the client and server.

That version is 2.5 months old.  Subversion is pre-1.0 software;  pretty
please --  use the latest version if you want better tech support.  :-)


> For every svn command we invoke we use the --username
> parameter, but never have the user name recognized in
> the repository.  The one notable exception was when we
> ran the original import, but in that case we were
> connected locally and not via an svnserve. 

So from this, I assume you're using svnserve, and not apache, as your
server?  We need more details.  Show us your url schemas.

The --username parameter is *only* used if the server issues an
authentication challenge.  The svn client doesn't "push" authentication
at the server;  the server "pulls" it from the client only if it thinks
authentication is necessary.  That means the --username parameter is 
useless if

  * you point the client at an anonymous svnserve ('svnserve -d')
  * you point the client an apache server with no auth configured
  * you point the client at an ssh-tunnelled-svnserve (the ssh username
is used instead)

If you are in fact using svnserve by itself, you should upgrade to the
latest version, because it now includes build-in CRAM5 authentication.




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