On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 6:43 PM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I installed subversion on a Raspberry Pi4B and checked the installed > version afterwards it printed this: > > $ svn --version > svn, version 1.14.2 (r1899510) > compiled Nov 12 2022, 20:30:30 on arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf > > Copyright (C) 2022 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/ > > < cut > > > The following authentication credential caches are available: > > * Plaintext cache in /home/bosse/.subversion > * Gnome Keyring > * GPG-Agent > * KWallet (KDE) > > I have had a lot of problems with password caching for a number of years > since I > am working on these devices mainly on the command line via ssh and when I > issue > a svn command against a server on our LAN what happens is that svn pops up a > password entry dialog on the (invisible) **GUI screen**! > And the operation started on the command line fails... > > It was not always so but some svn update changed the way svn operates.... > > Now I see the banner above where it looks like it is again available: > > * Plaintext cache in /home/bosse/.subversion > > The problem is that in the config file there is no example of the syntax for > enabling this.... > > So my question here is: > How do I enable the plaintext cache in svn client version 1.14.2 on a > Raspberry > Pi4B running Pi-OS? > > > -- > Bo Berglund > Developer in Sweden
In the user's home directory, there should be a subdirectory called .subversion which contains a file called config. In that file, there is a section called [auth] which contains a setting called "password-stores". It might be commented, or it might say something like "password-stores = gpg-agent,gnome-keyring,kwallet". This setting determines the order in which the different password stores (credential caches) are used. You could set this to "password-stores = plaintext". Make sure you don't have "store-passwords = no" or "store-plaintext-passwords = no". I think this will solve the issue -- though note that if the password has not been saved to the plaintext cache yet, the SVN client should prompt for it once, and then prompt whether you accept the risk to save it in the plaintext cache. This should take place on the command line, so I think you won't have the issue with the inaccessible GUI dialog box on the remote machine. Once saved, it shouldn't prompt for it anymore. Note: In addition to the user's ~/.subversion/config file I mentioned above, there is also a systemwide /etc/subversion/config. If changes in the user-level file don't appear to work, check the systemwide one as well. Hope this helps, Nathan
