On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 7:35 AM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > How can I configure (?) svn such that it caches the password in the > same way as it has done on all of my other RPi units before. > > I need to be able to work on this device BOTH via SSH login using > PuTTY and inside the GUI when connecting via VNC.
I don't think you want to enable plaintext password storage. Also I don't think that's part of the problem here. The first thing you should do is run "svn --version" on the machine in question and look for the list of available authentication credential caches toward the end. On my Debian box, that looks like this: [[[ The following authentication credential caches are available: * Gnome Keyring * GPG-Agent * KWallet (KDE) ]]] Those are much better than plaintext storage because the password caches are stored encrypted. If you don't have any credential caches listed, you'll need to either request from the package maintainer(s) to do something about it, or ensure you have the right dependencies installed and build the SVN client from sources. If you do get a list of credential caches that the SVN client recognizes, then you should pick one and ensure it is setup correctly. For example, if your SVN client supports gnome-keyring and you want to use that, you'll need to ensure you have whatever required packages installed on the RPi and may need to do some configuration so that the keyring will be "unlocked" when you login via ssh (with PuTTY). That should make the stored passwords available automatically and (at least after the first time to initially enter the password) eliminate the (GUI) password prompt. Hope this helps, Nathan
