[tei-council] Fwd: password challenge from svn

[Lou Burnard]

Thanks for all the reassuring indications that I am not alone... I'll 
let you know if I get it sorted!

L



On 07/04/13 18:57, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> I too have noticed this but hadn't looked into it.
>
> You can create a public/private key pair based on no passphrase and
> upload your public key to SF.  How this process works in general is
> described at:
>
> http://www.linuxproblem.org/art_9.html
>
> and SF-specific instructions (hard to follow) are at:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/SSH%20Keys/
>
> I have not tested it on SF, but I have set up such key pairs in my day job.
>
> On 4/7/13 1:48 PM, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
>> It was happening to me too, so I stopped using svn+ssh and just use the
>> HTTPS url for the repo instead.
>>
>> On 07/04/2013 18:45, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>>> On 7 Apr 2013, at 18:42, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>> Before I set up my nice new ubuntu desktop last month, I was happily
>>>> using the command line subversion client routinely to check stuff in and
>>>> out. I still am, but nowadays it insists on asking me for my sf password
>>>> every time, which it didnt do before and which other svn repos I use
>>>> don't either.
>>> its cos you're using the svn+ssh protocol now.
>>>
>>> cf http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7086797/svn-keeps-prompting-me-for-passwords-and-refuses-to-cache-my-credentials
>>>
>>> i havent sorted it out yet either
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