Bazaar Subversion Plugin

Should prompt for passwords

Bug #120768 reported by Jelmer Vernooij
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar Subversion Plugin
Fix Released
Low
Jelmer Vernooij
Bazaar Subversion Plugin 0.4.5
subversion
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

 affects /products/bzr-svn
 importance low

If Subversion hasn't yet cached the password for a remote host, bzr-svn
should prompt the user for the password, rather than trying to use no
authenitcation at all.

A workaround for this problem is to use a Subversion client and force it
to prompt for the password details of the remote host, after which it
will store a cache in the home directory of the user, that will also be
used by bzr-svn.
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lp:~jelmer/bzr-svn/authprompt (Merged)
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in bzr-svn:
assignee: nobody → jelmer
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

is this the same as it not asking for a password when no username is given?

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

Yes.

Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in bzr-svn:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 120768] Re: Should prompt for passwords

Before anything can be fixed in bzr-svn, python-subversion has to expose
the authentication providers in svn_auth.h to python users.

  affects /products/subversion

Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in bzr-svn:
milestone: none → 0.4.5
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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

This has been fixed in python-svn.

Changed in subversion:
status: New → Fix Released
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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2007, 18:14 +0000 schrieb Jelmer Vernooij:
> This has been fixed in python-svn.
>
> ** Changed in: subversion
> Status: New => Fix Released

  status fixcommitted

This is now supported in the 0.4 branch. To use it, Subversion 1.5 has
to be installed.

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in bzr-svn:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in bzr-svn:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Adrian (adrian-dziubek) wrote :

I got a message similar to #120768.

I checked that subversion has the authorisation information needed under ~/.subversion directory, but it turned out that the svn client itself still asked for it.

So for everybody still encountering the problem and thinking that subversion has the password, run svn checkout, make a small change, try to commit and see for yourself.

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Adrian (adrian-dziubek) wrote :

This was supposed to be #141556, sorry.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-svn/+bug/141556

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

Adrian, what version of bzr-svn are you using?

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Adrian (adrian-dziubek) wrote :

This was on Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), apt says:
bzr-svn 0.4.9-1
bzr 1.3.1-1

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

Please try with a newer version of bzr-svn, things have improved since.

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Bronislav Gabrhelik (bgabrhelik) wrote :

I tried to workaround this by adding username & password into an URL.

bzr svn-import http://uid:pwd@server/path-to-repos directory

In one respect it helps, so connection to repository succeeds, but after it scans revisions it doesn't find any matching branch. The reason is probably that PROPFIND returns URL without uid:pwd, so it is different to entered URL in command line.

This might be an alternative solution after small fix, maibe easier than adding the new command line arguments, or prompting for uid/pwd.

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