On 07.07.2014 10:51, Julian Foad wrote: > Branko Čibej wrote: >> On 07.07.2014 10:27, Julian Foad wrote: >>> Aha! But Subversion already has a way to read authn creds from a file: >>> >>> --config-dir=x >>> >>> All we're lacking is a convenient way to put the required creds into >>> the file. A user interface could be: >>> >>> svn auth authenticate $REPO_URL >>> >>> or, if you insist on being able to cache a user name and password when you >>> don't currently have access to the server: >>> >>> svn auth authenticate $REPO_URL --force --username=y --password=z >>> >>> Thoughts? >> Won't work given how we currently store credentials. The credentials key >> is not the URL, it's the realmstring, which you (in general) will not >> know without actually contacting the server. > OK, right. To be clear, you mean the *second* thing I wrote (the --force > variant) won't work. The first will.
Yes, certainly. There are other uses for your proposed "svn auth authenticate" command, though. For example, it would be really nice if users could register a trusted server cert before contacting the server, and register a client cert for a realm before contacting the server, too. For example, we currently do not even store client certs in the credentials store, only their passphrases; which is rather unfortunate, to put it mildly. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
