On Feb 13, 2008, at 2:59 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > hi miller, matju, all! > > Miller Puckette wrote: >> However, I don't have a password (only ssl auth, if even that >> exists in the same form) ... anyway to change SVN authentification >> methods in midstream? >> >> And/or should I just get an old-fashioned password from Iohannes? >> > > unfortunately _i_ cannot give you a password. > > fortunately it is not that complicated. > the password is (tada:) your sourceforge-password (with the > sourceforge > username of course); this is the very same password as the one you are > using to log into the bug-tracker. > > unlike CVS, svn does not use ssh as backend for encrypted transport. > instead it uses http(s) (in our case it _does_ use https, i just > mentioned http for completeness); as a consequence, there is no more > ssl-key exchange for authentication. > > rather, subversion caches your password on filesystem (once you have > entered it correctly), so you don't have to re-enter it again and > again. > > to prevent caching (e.g. because you are on an untrusted machine), you > can use the "--no-auth-cache" flag when committing.
I believe that like CVS, SVN uses other things to handle network communications. It relies on an external webserver to provide http/ https support, and it has a command line version, so you can use ssh with svn if the server is setup for it, I believe it's called "svn +ssh", i.e. svn+ssh://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net. It just seems that SourceForge doesn't use that kind of setup. SSH keys are great and quite secure. The idea of password caching kind of sucks (just like with CVS ;) Any word on how (in)secure that password caching is? .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.... -John Donne _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
