Subversion ignoring --password and --username options

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When I try to do any svn command and supply the --username and or --password options  it prompts me for my password anyways  and always will attempt to use my current user instead of the one specified by --username  Neither --no-auth-cache nor --non-interactive have any effect on this  This is a problem because I m trying to call svn commands from a script  and I can t have it show the prompt   For example  logged in as user1       svn update --username  user2  --password  password    user1 domain com s password     Other options work correctly       svn --version --quiet   1 3 2   Why does it prompt me  And why is it asking for user1 s password instead of user2 s  I m 99  sure all of my permissions are set correctly  Is there some config option for svn that switches off command-line passwords  Or is it something else entirely   I m running svn 1 3 2  r19776  on Fedora Core 5  Bordeaux      Here s a list of my environment variables  with sensitive information X ed out    None of them seem to apply to SVN     HOSTNAME XXXXXX   TERM xterm   SHELL  bin sh   HISTSIZE 1000   KDE NO IPV6 1   SSH CLIENT XXX XXX XXX XXX XXXXX XX   QTDIR  usr lib qt-3 3   QTINC  usr lib qt-3 3 include   SSH TTY  dev pts 2   USER XXXXXX   LS COLORS no 00 fi 00 di 00 34 ln 00 36 pi 40 33 so 00 35 bd 40 33 01 cd 40 33 01 or 01 05 37 41 mi 01 05 37 41 ex 00 32   cmd 00 32   exe 00 32   com 00 32   btm 00 32   bat 00 32   sh 00 32   csh 00 32   tar 00 31   tgz 00 31   arj 00 31   taz 00 31   lzh 00 31   zip 00 31   z 00 31   Z 00 31   gz 00 31   bz2 00 31   bz 00 31   tz 00 31   rpm 00 31   cpio 00 31   jpg 00 35   gif 00 35   bmp 00 35   xbm 00 35   xpm 00 35   png 00 35   tif 00 35    KDEDIR  usr   MAIL  var spool mail XXXXXX   PATH  usr lib qt-3 3 bin  usr kerberos bin  usr local bin  bin  usr bin   INPUTRC  etc inputrc   PWD  home users XXXXXX my repository   KDE IS PRELINKED 1   LANG en US UTF-8   SSH ASKPASS  usr libexec openssh gnome-ssh-askpass   SHLVL 1   HOME  home users XXXXXX   LOGNAME XXXXXX   QTLIB  usr lib qt-3 3 lib   CVS RSH ssh   SSH CONNECTION 69 202 73 122 60998 216 7 19 47 22   LESSOPEN   usr bin lesspipe sh  s   G BROKEN FILENAMES 1      bin env   OLDPWD  home users XXXXXX

User · Answer

I had this same issue and solved it by setting up my ~/.ssh/config file to explicitly use the correct username (i.e. the one you use to login to the server, not your local machine). So, for example:

Host server.hostname
  User username

I found this blog post helpful: http://www.highlevelbits.com/2007/04/svn-over-ssh-prompts-for-wrong-username.html

User · Answer

Look to your local svn repo and look into directory  svn   there is file  entries   look into them and you ll see lines begins with  svn ssh     this is your first configuration maked by  svn checkout  repo source   or  svn co  repo source   if you want to change this  te best way is completly refresh this repository  update commit what you should for save work  then remove completly directory and last step is create this by svn co checkout  URI-for-main-repo   optionally local directory for store   you should select connection method to repo  file    svn ssh     http    https    or other described in documentation   after that you use svn update commit as usual   this topic looks like out of topic  better you go to superuser pages

User · Answer

I had a similar problem  I wanted to use a different user name for a svn ssh repository  In the end  I used svn relocate  as described in in this answer  In my case  I m using svn 1 6 11 and did the following   svn switch --relocate       svn ssh   olduser svnserver path to repo       svn ssh   newuser svnserver path to repo   where svn ssh   olduser svnserver path to repo can be found in the URL  line output of svn info command  This command asked me for the password of newuser    Note that this change is persistent  i e  if you want only temporarily switch to the new username with this method  you ll have to issue a similar command again after svn update etc

User · Answer

The prompt you re getting doesn t look like Subversion asking you for a password  it looks like ssh asking for a password   So my guess is that you have checked out an svn ssh    checkout  not an svn    or http    or https    checkout   IIRC all the options you re trying only work for the svn http https checkouts   Can you run svn info to confirm what kind of repository you are using    If you are using ssh  you should set up key-based authentication so that your scripts will work without prompting for a password

User · Answer

Do you actually have the single quotes in your command  I don t think they are necessary  Plus  I think you also need --no-auth-cache and --non-interactive  Here is what I use  no single quotes    --non-interactive --no-auth-cache --username XXXX --password YYYY   See the Client Credentials Caching documentation in the svnbook for more information

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Best I can give you is a  works for me  on SVN 1 5   You may try adding --no-auth-cache to your svn update to see if that lets you override more easily   If you want to permanently switch from user2 to user1  head into    subversion auth  on  nix and delete the auth cache file for domain com  most likely in    subversion auth svn simple  -- just read through them and you ll find the one you want to drop    While it is possible to update the current auth cache  you have to make sure to update the length tokens as well   Simpler just to get prompted again next time you update

User · Answer

The problem was that the working copy was checked out via svn ssh  thanks  Thomas    Instead of setting up ssh keys as was suggested  I just checked out a new working copy using svn   domain com path to repo rather than svn ssh   domain com path to repo   Because this working copy is on the same machine as the repository itself  I m not really missing out on anything  and I can now use the --password and --username options gratuitously   Seems obvious now that I think about it

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