Den tis 19 jan. 2021 kl 10:47 skrev David Aldrich < david.aldrich.n...@gmail.com>:
> 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? > This is possible to tunnel the connection through SSH in which case you only need to authenticate the SSH connection (for example using keys). However it require some support/configuration on the server side so it depends on the server. The process is fairly well described in the Subversion book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html Kind regards, Daniel Sahlberg >
