It should only use gnome if it is specified in your config file (~/.subversion/config):
password-stores = gnome-keyring -Steve From: Jeremy Wall [mailto:jw...@google.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:11 AM To: Varnau, Steve (Neoview) Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Possible bug in svn's gnome-keyring support? The strangeness is it's insistence on using the Gnome Keyring despite me not using Gnome. Is this the expected default behaviour? On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Varnau, Steve (Neoview) <steve.var...@hp.com<mailto:steve.var...@hp.com>> wrote: Jeremy, If svn is configured to use a Gnome keyring, then it is trying to store the password you are giving on the command line in the keyring. Hence it is prompting for the gnome-keyring password. If you also specify –no-auth-cache, then you might not get a prompt. -Steve From: Jeremy Wall [mailto:jw...@google.com<mailto:jw...@google.com>] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:09 AM To: users@subversion.apache.org<mailto:users@subversion.apache.org> Subject: Possible bug in svn's gnome-keyring support? Hi, I noticed after updating svn to version 1.6.6 that svn now has gnome-keyring support. However It seems to ignore the --username --password flags if that support is enabled. I don't use the gnome-keyring or even gnome but subversion refused to let me commit until I turned off password-stores in the config despite giving it a valid username and password. Instead it would prompt for the gnome-keyring password which is not set up for me and refuse to continue until I successfully authenticated to the keyring. This seems like the wrong behavior to me. Is it intended? Here is my subversion information: svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053) compiled Dec 12 2009, 05:06:12 Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/). The following repository access (RA) modules are available: * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol. - with Cyrus SASL authentication - handles 'svn' scheme * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. - handles 'file' scheme Jeremy