On Sep 30, 2010, at 03:40, OmarShariffDoneLikeIt wrote: > I'm writing a program that processes the XML results of svn log. After > following a bug, I found that on OSX the following example would fail to use > the specified username and password: > > ben> svn log --username someoneelse --password secret > ssh+svn://myserver.com/repo/trunk -r 1 -v --xml > b...@myserver.com password: > > Notice that is is using the current shell user name and not the username > provided in the command arguments, nor the password. > > So my question(s) are: > > - Is anyone aware of any reasons why svn log would ignore the --username and > --password arguments. If so, what are these conditions? I can't find any > documentation that suggests that they would be ignored under any > circumstances. > > - Is anyone aware of this issue at all? Is this an OSX only issue? If so, > anyone aware of a work around? > > - If this is a potentially problemeatic way of calling svn log, does anyone > know of a better way of getting the xml results of svn log whilst providing > the url, username and password?
I think it's less a Mac OS X issue and more an svn+ssh issue. With svn+ssh, the ssh layer handles authentication, so anything you pass to Subversion in --username and --password is irrelevant. You may have to set up keypairs, or serve your repository on a different protocol (which could be in addition to svn+ssh).
