always prompted for passphrase with subversion 1.6

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.

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

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.

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