No replies to this error but I may enlighten any other users with the same 
problem. The cause is HPUX getpass() function that limits password lengths to 8 
characters. A workaround seems to be to recompile APR , and force APR to use 
internal getpass function. Ref this post :
http://marc.info/?l=apr-dev&m=127728994332622



Geir



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From: Engebakken Geir [mailto:geir.engebak...@edb.com]
Sent: 29. august 2011 09:43
To: users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Strange error in HPUX 1.6.16 SVN client



We tried installing a SVN 1.6.16 client on a HPUX platform. We had to install 
some packages missing for /dev/random and also a SSL upgrade but it seemed to 
work in the end. The client ran ok and contacted our SVN server over https 
which tried to authorize the user against our LDAP server. The strange thing 
was that we got a "password mismatch" error from LDAP.

We ran the client like this :

svn info <repos-path>

And were prompted for password (userid I guess was picked from the logged in 
id), anyway on the server log the username was shown correctly.

This error happened for all our users, but we found  out after a lonnnng time a 
workaround :


svn info <repos-path> --username <user> --password <password>


This worked ok! And now we were prompted to store user/password in the 
.subversion folder, and it was cached ok for later use without suppling user/pw.

Now this is strange, anyone have an idea why this failed  in the first place?






Geir



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