Where does SVN client store user authentication data

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I am trying to simulate a problem we have with a particular domain ID which has issues accessing a subversion repository  Towards this  I tried a svn checkout with the  option --username domain problematic ID on another windows machine  But I am not able to reproduce the problem as the checkout still succeeds using my own ID  This led me to wonder if SVN caches user authentication data in more than one place and if so where    I have cleared the auth directory in the application data area  changed the options in the config file to disable caching of user auth data - but to no avail  The system does not even prompt me for the new user name and password  but simply checks out with the old ID  I know it is the old ID in use by looking through the SVN logs   I am obviously missing something here -- but what   -     Does anyone know    The subversion client version I use is 1 4 6 r28521

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It sounds like you are doing everything exactly as the client credential section of the Subversion book suggests   The only thing I can think of is that the server isn t asking for the username and password because is getting it from somewhere else

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I know I m uprising a very old topic  but after a couple of hours struggling with this very problem and not finding a solution anywhere else  I think this is a good place to put an answer   We have some Build Servers WindowsXP based and found this very problem  svn command line client is not caching auth credentials   We finally found out that we are using Cygwin s svn client  not a  native  Windows  So    this client stores all the auth credentials in  home  lt user gt   subversion auth  This  home directory in Cygwin  in our installation is in c  cygwin home  AND  the problem was that the Windows user that is running svn did never ever  logged in  in Cygwin  and so there was no  home  lt user gt  directory   A simple  bash -ls  from a Windows command terminal created the directory  and after the first access to our SVN server with interactive prompting for access credentials  al  s  they got cached   So if you are using Cygwin s svn client  be sure to have a  home  directory created for the local Windows user

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On Windows  you can find it under    USERPROFILE  AppData Roaming Subversion auth svn simple  same as below   APPDATA  Roaming Subversion auth svn simple  There may be multiple files under this directory  depending upon the repos you are contributing to  You can assume this as one file for each svn server  You can open the file with any text editor and make sure you are going to delete the correct file

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On Unix  it s in  HOME  subversion auth   On Windows  I think it s   APPDATA  Subversion auth

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Read SVNBook   Client Credentials   With modern SVN you can just run svn auth to display the list of cached credentials  Don t forget to make sure that you run up-to-date SVN client version because svn auth was introduced in version 1 9  The last line will specify the path to credential store which by default is  APPDATA  Subversion auth on Windows and    subversion auth  on Unix-like systems    PS C  Users MyUser gt  svn auth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Credential kind  svn simple Authentication realm   lt https   svn example local 443 gt  VisualSVN Server Password cache  wincrypt Password   not shown  Username  user  Credentials cache in  C  Users MyUser AppData Roaming Subversion  contains 5 credentials

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Which version do you use   Here is the documentation on credential caching  for the latest  1 6 as of writing       On Windows  the Subversion client   stores passwords in the    APPDATA  Subversion auth   directory    On Windows 2000 and later  the   standard Windows cryptography services   are used to encrypt the password on   disk  Because the encryption key is   managed by Windows and is tied to the   user s own login credentials  only the   user can decrypt the cached password     Note that if the user s Windows   account password is reset by an   administrator  all of the cached   passwords become undecipherable  The   Subversion client will behave as   though they don t exist  prompting for   passwords when required     Also  be aware that a few changes occurred in version 1 6 regarding password storage

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