On Nov 3, 7:54 pm, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:38 PM, rupert.thurner > <rupert.thur...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > while looking for a possibility to help a user of subversion so he > > does not need to type the server password all the time, i got hinted > > to GnomeKeyring and seahorse. subversion offers to be compile with -- > > with-gnome-keyring option. > > managing your keyring and this is tied to your login session. What we did > for our CollabNet binaries was write a small command line tool that uses > the GNOME keyring API but gives you a simple command line interface. I do > not know why GNOME does not provide one. I would be happy to share the > source code if you want it. > > With this tool you can use the command line tool to create a keyring as > well as unlock it. The latter is what you would want to do when you login > (after starting the keyring-daemon).
mark, great to hear you would be able to share this tool. btw, the keyring-libraries are now linked to the http://opencsw.org subversion solaris build and therefor in the upcoming opencsw subversion-1.7.2 release: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset/16366/csw/mgar/pkg/subversion/trunk rupert.