Only one userid per realm cached in .subversion directory

[Wa...@emc.com]

Hi all

I'm using subversion version 1.6.9 under Cygwin and storing my project
on projectlocker

The problem I'm having is that a colleague is also using ProjectLocker
and the svn CLI is caching just one username/password per realm, and the
realm is just "<https://free1.projectlocker.com:443> Subversion
Repository"

That is, it doesn't include the repository path.

The effect of this is that every time I do repository updates for my
project, it asks for my username/password and caches that.
But as soon as I do some updates for his repository, I need to re-enter
my credentials.
This flip flops back and forwards between the two user names I have to
use on projectlocker.

Do you think it's desirable / possible to cache the credentials on a
lower, more specific level than the site name?

Thanks
~ Michael



$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.9 (r901367)
   compiled Jan 21 2010, 16:47:22

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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

Re: Only one userid per realm cached in .subversion directory

[Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 19:14,  <Wa...@emc.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm using subversion version 1.6.9 under Cygwin and storing my project
> on projectlocker

Why Cygwin? Unless you have an absolute requirement to use the Cygwin
client, use the native Win32 client. Cygwin introduces oddities in how
Subversion handles some things.

> The problem I'm having is that a colleague is also using ProjectLocker
> and the svn CLI is caching just one username/password per realm, and the
> realm is just "<https://free1.projectlocker.com:443> Subversion
> Repository"
>
> That is, it doesn't include the repository path.
>
> The effect of this is that every time I do repository updates for my
> project, it asks for my username/password and caches that.
> But as soon as I do some updates for his repository, I need to re-enter
> my credentials.
> This flip flops back and forwards between the two user names I have to
> use on projectlocker.
>
> Do you think it's desirable / possible to cache the credentials on a
> lower, more specific level than the site name?

I think this sounds like a very limited use case; I don't recall
anyone asking for something like this previously. Most people have
only a single set of credentials for a given server and use them
across all repositories.

This can also be worked around by setting up a different realm for
each repository, but that would require additional Apache
configuration.