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Re: A couple more subversion notes
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 02:19 +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de> writes:
>
> | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> | > It seems that svn is unable to send all its requests to the svn
> | > repo over one ssh connection. In one test I just did I had to enter
> | > the ssh password five times.
> |
> | man ssh-agent
>
> The connection is still set up five times with ssh-agent... it is just
> hidden from view.
>
We've been through this, actually.
We only use svn+ssh because that is what the current sourceware auth
infrastructure is, and svn is a plaintext transport.
1.4 should have svn and SSL support, in a way that will allow us to not
have to pay the ssl handshake peanlty except during things requiring
auth. When this comes along, we will move to it, which will probably
require some sort of underlying authentication change (I doubt we want
to give everyone real passwords in the passwd file). Luckily there is
already support for external password databases in svnserve.
--Dan