On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:29:40 -0500, Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 7:35 AM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> How can I configure (?) svn such that it caches the password in the >> same way as it has done on all of my other RPi units before. >> >> I need to be able to work on this device BOTH via SSH login using >> PuTTY and inside the GUI when connecting via VNC. > >I don't think you want to enable plaintext password storage. Also I >don't think that's part of the problem here. You are correct, I don't care how the password is stored just that the login should not move to a *different and invisible window* than the one I am working in when I want to commit something! Especially frustrating when I use an SSH terminal like PuTTY. >The first thing you should do is run "svn --version" on the machine in >question and look for the list of available authentication credential >caches toward the end. On my Debian box, that looks like this: > >[[[ >The following authentication credential caches are available: > >* Gnome Keyring >* GPG-Agent >* KWallet (KDE) >]]] > This is what I get: $ svn --version svn, version 1.10.4 (r1850624) compiled Jul 28 2019, 02:44:06 on arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf Copyright (C) 2019 The Apache Software Foundation. This software consists of contributions made by many people; see the NOTICE file for more information. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/ The following repository access (RA) modules are available: * 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. - using serf 1.3.9 (compiled with 1.3.9) - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme The following authentication credential caches are available: * Plaintext cache in /home/pi/.subversion * Gnome Keyring * GPG-Agent * KWallet (KDE) >Those are much better than plaintext storage because the password >caches are stored encrypted. Fine, that is OK for me. I never open any password file anyway. >If you don't have any credential caches listed, you'll need to either >request from the package maintainer(s) to do something about it, or >ensure you have the right dependencies installed and build the SVN >client from sources. Well, as you see they are there, but if they are non-GUI they seem not to be used anyway. >If you do get a list of credential caches that the SVN client >recognizes, then you should pick one and ensure it is setup correctly. How do I "pick one"? Inside the ~/.subversion/config ot ~/.subversion/servers files???? And how to "setup"? >For example, if your SVN client supports gnome-keyring and you want to >use that, you'll need to ensure you have whatever required packages >installed on the RPi and may need to do some configuration so that the >keyring will be "unlocked" when you login via ssh (with PuTTY). That >should make the stored passwords available automatically and (at least >after the first time to initially enter the password) eliminate the >(GUI) password prompt. I do not know what any of these are, I just want the login dialog to show in the text based SSH window where I issued the svn command.... Which one of these will make the GUI dialog go away? The names indicate that they are related to Linux GUI desktops, which I don't use.. Subversion was so easy to use on the command line but now it is a PITA... I just want to *use* svn. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden
