# [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6 4 messages from 2009-08-27 to 2010-12-14. Participants: Tim Potter, Eric Wong, Edward Rudd. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20747 ## Tim Potter, 2009-08-27 00:38 Subject: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6 Message-ID: <4A95D58C.1070409@hp.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A95D58C.1070409%40hp.com ``` 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, 2009-09-05 06:46 Subject: Re: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6 Message-ID: <20090905064649.GD22272@dcvr.yhbt.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090905064649.GD22272%40dcvr.yhbt.net In-Reply-To: <4A95D58C.1070409@hp.com> ``` Tim Potter 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. [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, 2009-09-10 00:58 Subject: Re: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6 Message-ID: <4AA84F46.6010706@hp.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4AA84F46.6010706%40hp.com In-Reply-To: <20090905064649.GD22272@dcvr.yhbt.net> ``` Eric Wong wrote: > Tim Potter 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, 2010-12-14 14:33 Subject: Re: [git-svn] always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6 Message-ID: <4D078048.3040602@outoforder.cc> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4D078048.3040602%40outoforder.cc In-Reply-To: <4AA84F46.6010706@hp.com> ``` On 09/09/2009 08:58 PM, Tim Potter wrote: > 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 ```