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davidlt
davidlt

Reputation: 1007

svn updates with different account (--username and --password ignored?)

Here is the situation: One man checked out repository and now I have to update some of the folders. Problem is that he left and no one knows the password. So, I would like to use my own account. I execute this command:

svn up --username (my_user_name) --password (my_password) --no-auth-cache

SVN asks for my password and SVN doesn't accept it. It looks like my credentials are ignored and original credentials are used (the one who did check out). I tested my account doing check out in /tmp and worked fine.

Why SVN does not accept my credentials while doing update?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 38176

Answers (5)

Santi
Santi

Reputation: 631

Please try the command bellow. It is the proper way to remove cached credentials.

$ rm -f ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/*

After that:

$ svn up --username <your username>

Upvotes: 3

Filippo Vitale
Filippo Vitale

Reputation: 8103

I had the same problem and I found that this option servers:global:http-library=serf can solve the issue if the protocol is http/https.

Your command then would be:

svn up --username (my_user_name) --password (my_password) --no-auth-cache \
       --config-option servers:global:http-library=serf

Upvotes: 7

zellus
zellus

Reputation: 9592

Get the required permissions and become owner of the workspace by changing user and group settings:

chown -R user:group path/to/workspace/root/

Try again accessing the workspace with your credentials.

Upvotes: 1

sleske
sleske

Reputation: 83599

I have never tried this, but it looks like SVN stores the user ID internally once you check out something. I am not sure you can override this when checking in.

Why don't you just change the ex-employee's password on the server (he doesn't need his password anymore ;-)). Then do the checkin under his name, with the changed password. This is arguably cleaner anyway, because then the checkin will appear under his names, and the changes were done by him.

Upvotes: -1

Version Control Buddy
Version Control Buddy

Reputation: 1436

Try this

  mv $HOME/.subversion $HOME/.subversion-old
  cd <your working copy> 
  svn up --username <your username>

This should ask for the password for your username

Upvotes: 6

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