Hi We run a Jenkins job that lists the branches and tags of a certain svn repository by running 'svn ls'.
The command, of course, requires svn authentication and so a password must be provided. Jenkins has a svn plugin which allows it to check out from svn repositories, using stored credentials, before running a job. As far as I know, the job itself can't access those credentials. The job script could provide the password but that is very insecure. I have gotten around this in the past by using gnome keyring, but I find that very hard to install on a headless server, so I have a problem of how to provide the password. So my question is: is it possible to authenticate to svn, i.e. run svn commands, using ssh key-based authentication instead of using a password? If so, can you point me in the right direction please? Best regards David
