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[git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6

Subject: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6

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4 messages between Aug 27, 2009 and Dec 14, 2010.

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Tim Potter· Aug 27, 2009, 00:38 UTC · lore

Hi everyone. I am using git-svn with the Subversion 1.6 client compiled with GNOME Keyring support. This neat features allows a SSL client certificate password to be cached inside GNOME Keyring instead of being prompted to enter it every time. However the git-svn script doesn't appear to know about this and always prompts for a password.

Obviously there's some tweak required in the _auth_providers() subroutine but I don't know enough about the Subversion Perl client to figure out a fix.

Has anyone else run in to this problem? I did a quick search on the list but didn't find anything relevant.

Regards,
Tim.
Eric Wong· Sep 5, 2009, 06:46 UTC · re: Tim Potter · lore

Re: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6

Tim Potter <tpot@hp.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone.  I am using git-svn with the Subversion 1.6 client compiled
> with GNOME Keyring support.  This neat features allows a SSL client
> certificate password to be cached inside GNOME Keyring instead of being
> prompted to enter it every time.  However the git-svn script doesn't
> appear to know about this and always prompts for a password.
> 
> Obviously there's some tweak required in the _auth_providers()
> subroutine but I don't know enough about the Subversion Perl client to
> figure out a fix.
> 
> Has anyone else run in to this problem?  I did a quick search on the
> list but didn't find anything relevant.
Hi Tim,

I think one user wanted to get SSL certificate authentication going but my SSL knowledge was too weak at the time[1] and I think we both forgot about it or lost interest.

[1] and probably still so, though I have recently managed to set
    *something* up with SSL client certs and maybe it's done
    right.  SSL is just one of those things that never really
    "clicked" for me (ssh on the other hand...)
-- 
Eric Wong
Tim Potter· Sep 10, 2009, 00:58 UTC · re: Eric Wong · lore

Re: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6

Eric Wong wrote:
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> Tim Potter <tpot@hp.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone.  I am using git-svn with the Subversion 1.6 client compiled
>> with GNOME Keyring support.  This neat features allows a SSL client
>> certificate password to be cached inside GNOME Keyring instead of being
>> prompted to enter it every time.  However the git-svn script doesn't
>> appear to know about this and always prompts for a password.
>>
>> Obviously there's some tweak required in the _auth_providers()
>> subroutine but I don't know enough about the Subversion Perl client to
>> figure out a fix.
>>
>> Has anyone else run in to this problem?  I did a quick search on the
>> list but didn't find anything relevant.
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> I think one user wanted to get SSL certificate authentication going but
> my SSL knowledge was too weak at the time[1] and I think we both forgot
> about it or lost interest.
Hi Eric.  Thanks for the reply.

It's probably just a matter of adding another entry to the _auth_providers() function in git-svn. My thought was that there might be a new auth provider in the Subversion 1.6 client library for GNOME Keyring support that could be used for this.

I'll have a search through and see what I can find.
Regards,
Tim.
Edward Rudd· Dec 14, 2010, 14:33 UTC · re: Tim Potter · lore

Re: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6

On 09/09/2009 08:58 PM, Tim Potter wrote:
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> It's probably just a matter of adding another entry to the
> _auth_providers() function in git-svn.  My thought was that there might
> be a new auth provider in the Subversion 1.6 client library for GNOME
> Keyring support that could be used for this.
> 
> I'll have a search through and see what I can find.

I've been tracking subversion bug # 3612 (http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cfg?id=3612 ) which is on this issue of perl binding not supporting platform specific providers.

A patch was added into subversion 1.6.15 that finally adds bindings for perl to access this functionality via a call to SVN::Core::auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers and adding it's contents to the array returned by _auth_providers..

The "test" modification I did to git-svn is as follows.
sub _auth_providers () {
  (
    SVN::Core::auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers(undef,undef),
    [
      SVN::Client::get_simple_provider(),
      .... the rest of the static provider ...
    ]
  )
}

I'm honestly not sure if it should be at the beginning or end, and this also needs some run-time checking to determine if the user has at least SVN 1.6.15 installed

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