On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Aubrey Barnard <barn...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > >> I am having trouble getting Subversion to work with the Gnome keyring and >> would like some advice on how to troubleshoot the situation. At this point I >> have tried everything I can find (Google, these archives), so I need to find >> how/where things are failing. >> >> I am using the svn+ssh protocol to access a server within my organization. >> Even with what I understand is the proper configuration, I am still prompted >> for my SSH password and Subversion never mentions a keyring or asks for a >> keyring password. The environment is RHEL 6, so I expected this to work >> out-of-the-box with the default svn. More information is below. > > Subversion does not really do any authentication when you use SSH, so > there are no credentials for it to cache and none of those settings > come into play. > > When you use SSH, the authentication process is managed by your SSH > client. I think most Unix users use something like ssh-agent to > manage their keys and I believe there are flavors of that which > interact with a GUI such as GNOME.
But the "gnome-keyring" is supposed to manage this for you with Gnome up and running. Aubry, which Subversion are you using? I've published, SRPM tools at https://github.com/nkadel/subversion-1.6.18-srpm which you may find useful to build a fully equipped Subveriosn 1.6.18, compatible with Red Hat's, but with all the latest features such as gnome-keyring support as much as can be activated with RHEL 5. Alternatively, jump to RHEL 6 or Scientific Linux 6, both of with have better support for such modern tools.
