We've had problems in the past in logging into our SVN server using the
WebDAV plugin, when someone mistypes their password. From what we can
tell, it appears that XXE keeps re-trying the same bad password ten
tries, and our server locks them out (it's set to lock out an account
that uses invalid passwords after five or so consecutive tries). The
specific error msg that comes from mistyping a password is:
Cannot connect to
<our svn server>
Bug in authorization handling; server refused
the given info 10 times
(I think this error msg originates from Java, see
http://codenav.org/code.html?project=/net/sf/grinder/grinder-httpclient/3.8&path=/Source%20Packages/HTTPClient/AuthorizationModule.java.
IMO that's a good example of bad coding, namely hard-coding an
arbitrary value in. Of course that's a problem internal to Java, not
s.t. that you guys at XMLmind created.)
We thought perhaps the DXXE_CONFIRM_CREDENTIALS_DELAY setting described
here
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/system_properties.html
would help. It's not entirely clear to me where this property gets set,
but the "Description" column on that page shows this:
-DXXE_CONFIRM_CREDENTIALS_DELAY=1000
So I tried starting up XXE using that as a command line parameter. But
XXE gives a usage error msg saying that this is an "unknown option".
Indeed the only preferences options the error msg lists are -putprefs,
-putpref, and -delpref, while the only authentication option is -auth.
I'm guessing that DXXE_CONFIRM_CREDENTIALS_DELAY is also not an
environment variable, as these are listed on a separate page of the
documentation.
How does one set this DXXE_CONFIRM_CREDENTIALS_DELAY variable? And is
it likely to fix the problem we're having with mistyped passwords?
Essentially, what we want it to do is, if the server refuses the
credentials, give up after the first try.
Mike Maxwell
University of Maryland
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