On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Cooke, Mark <mark.co...@siemens.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name] >> Sent: 09 March 2011 16:48 >> To: Cooke, Mark >> Cc: users@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Need help troubleshooting user authentication (apache) >> >> 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? > > Not yet. Corporate IT consider it my problem and that option is > definite *last resort* material *sigh* > >> * 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.) > > I guess it means exactly what it says but I'll try looking in the source > once I've found it to confirm. I did find one comment to an article > that said they had problems with "AuthzLDAPAuthoritative" set "On" so I > might try turning that "Off" but I need to check the implications of > that. > > Still no idea why this only applies via the svn client (either command > line or TortoiseSVN) and not when accessing the server using https via > IE8...
As a quick drive-by suggestion, two things come to mind: - SVN might use cached credential, browser doesn't. Maybe just (re)move the cached credentials on the client-machine (from %APP_DATA%/Subversion/auth, or from the registry (see svnbook)), and try again? - proxy: svn only goes through proxy if it is configured as such in the servers file in the runtime-configuration area. Browser might use different proxy settings. HTH, -- Johan