Cooke, Mark wrote on Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 14:44:31 -0000: > [Wed Jan 12 10:06:38 2011] [error] [client ip-address] user user_a: > authentication failure for "/svn/dept/project/trunk": Password Mismatch > > I do not understand where the 'Password Mismatch' error is coming from, > why does that only happen when using subversion and not the browser? I > have tried searching for "rejected Basic challenge" (both svn.haxx.se > and the wider net) but I've not found anything that hes helped so far. ... > What can I do to try to work out what the problem is? It is only svn > and (currently) for only this one user... I'd really appreciate any > help at this point.
* Have you tried creating a new OS user for that one user? * Yes, may be a good idea to look up where "Password Mismatch" is generated. (I haven't heard of it before, but I don't claim to have heard of all typical syslog messages.)
