Bert Huijben wrote on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 21:56:11 +0000: > Does your server support anonymous read only connections? > > > If it allows those, it is completely expected that it doesn't use a > password for authorizing things like log… and therefore never > updates/stores passwords in that case. >
... and if you want the full log, a easy workaround is to set up a second <Location>, for the same repository, that doesn't permit anonymous access. Daniel > > Bert > > > > > > From: Schulz, Gunther > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 4:05 PM > To: users@subversion.apache.org > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I detected an unexpected behaviour of the subversion client (Debian 7.7, svn > version 1.6.12 (r955767)): > > > > The configuration settings of store-plaintext-passwords (yes/ask/no) are only > validated if I execute svn commands like checkout or update, but not for a > simple ‘svn log’ command: > > - the password file in auth/svn.simple were not generated > > - strangely I was asked if I want to store the hostkey certificate > which worked seemlessly > > - when using a ‘svn update’ or ‘svn checkout’ the expected behaviour > was seen (prompt for saving or save automatically) > > > > Usually this is not detected as one of the first calls are update or checkout > commands, but I used here some scripting using ‘svn log’ and was wondering > why my password was never updated, no matter where I changed the > save-plaintext-passwords settings (/etc/subversion/servers or > ~/.subversion/servers, global section or specific local server sections). > > > > I assume this is a bug or at least a strange feature. Normally I would expect > that the same authentication procedure is used for all the remote svn > commands which require authentication against the server. > > > > Please let me know if you need some traces or configuration settings… > > > > BTW: Subversion server was running on a Windows server machine, access via > WebDAV / https > > > > Best regards, > > > > Gunther > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH > Carl Zeiss Gruppe > Lithography Optics Division / Technology Mechatronics > Department LIT-TES > > G u n t h e r S c h u l z > > Phone: +49 73 64 20-9672 > mailto: gunther.sch...@zeiss.com | http://www.zeiss.com/smt > > > Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH > Rudolf-Eber-Straße 2, 73447 Oberkochen > Geschäftsführung: Dr. Hermann Gerlinger (Vorsitzender), Dr. Andreas Dorsel, > Axel Jaeger > Sitz der Gesellschaft: 73447 Oberkochen, Deutschland > Amtsgericht Ulm, HRB 725667, USt-IdNr: DE 811119999 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
