[svk-devel] SVN mirroring with different credentials

[Mark Burton]

I had the same problem
My solution is - frankly - disgusting - so DONT do it - but lease tell 
me a better way!

I did this...
  I set up a user name to match the credentials needed - for me this 
makes sense anyway, but it is not ideal.
	-) From that user, I did a check in - it's used the users name, I 
provided the password
	-) I then copied the cached server credentials file (in 
~name/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/....) from this user to the user that 
would actually do the check in.
Now, hey- presto - the user that does the check in, sees a cached 
credentials file and uses it.

If you haven't reached for the sick bag yet, you probably should have 
done. At least, you should note that this will ONLY work for _ONE_ 
user.

Of course, you could try (as I did) to "fool" svk into believing that 
the real user is a different user by setting $HOME and $USER. This 
works fine for SVK (it reads it's configuration from ~HOME/.svk etc) - 
but totally fails to fool the underlying subversion - so you end up 
with a bit of a dog's dinner...

Please, somebody on the list  - give us a better way :-)
	(like a -user -password flag?)

Cheers

Mark.




On 21 Jan 2007, at 16:04, Alexandru Popescu wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am wondering what must be the setup to allow to mirror a SVN where
> the credentials are different than your current user. In my case I
> have I have such a mirror and when trying to smerge back it looks like
> a dance:
>
> svk smerge -I /pub/local/groovy/trunk /pub/groovy/trunk
> Auto-merging (0, 11638) /local/groovy/trunk to /groovy/trunk (base
> /groovy/trunk:11631).
> ===> Auto-merging (0, 11157) /local/groovy/trunk to /groovy/trunk
> (base /groovy/trunk:11154).
> Merging back to mirror source https://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk.
> Authentication realm: <https://svn.codehaus.org:443> groovy Repo
> Password for 'x':
> Authentication realm: <https://svn.codehaus.org:443> groovy Repo
> Username:
> Password for 'y':
> Empty merge.
> ===> Auto-merging (11157, 11546) /local/groovy/trunk to /groovy/trunk
> (base /groovy/trunk:11541).
> Merging back to mirror source https://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk.
> Authentication realm: <https://svn.codehaus.org:443> groovy Repo
> Password for 'x':
> Authentication realm: <https://svn.codehaus.org:443> groovy Repo
> Username:
> Password for 'y':
> Empty merge.
> ===> Auto-merging (11546, 11547) /local/groovy/trunk to /groovy/trunk
> (base /groovy/trunk:11542).
> Merging back to mirror source https://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk.
> Authentication realm: <https://svn.codehaus.org:443> groovy Repo
> Password for 'x':
> Authentication realm: <https://svn.codehaus.org:443> groovy Repo
> Username:
> Password for 'y':
> Empty merge.
>
> [... and so on... after 25-30 such iterations I finally gave out).
>
> I am quite sure there are better ways to do this, so please let me 
> know.
>
> ./alex
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