Login problems when committing changes to svn repository In order to reproduce this issue, I used the following while checking in changes to my GPL LICENSE file...
> svn ci -m "Removed instructions from LICENSE file." --username myuserid --password "pphxC9k4\Q=bNL8:" --trust-server-cert --non-interactive LICENSE ... svn: MKACTIVITY of '/svnroot/phpjobseeker/!svn/act/7c893501-f9e4-ec41-9206-1ebc57d5f6e8': authorization failed: Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge (https://phpjobseeker.svn.sourceforge.net) Obviously, this is not only no longer the password I use (not even close), but it's also not my userid. When I removed just the \ from the password, it worked. Prior to that, I kept getting authentication failures. I've filed this issue with SF asking they warn users when attempting to create passwords with the \ character in them: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/17375 Host is Windows 7. Problem also occurs in SVNKit with Eclipse (Helios SR1) driving the repository (though it relies on the svn configuration saved by SlikSVN). I did not have the same problem when using svn on Linux. I did not try this on other versions of Windows. I am using ... svn, version 1.6.15 (SlikSvn/1.6.15) X64 compiled Dec 17 2010, 15:25:54 Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/ This product includes software developed by CollabNet ( http://www.Collab.Net/). The following repository access (RA) modules are available: * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme * 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. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme
