Comments on: Tired of entering you svn password everytime?

By: Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:03:56 +0000

Thanks for this writeup! It’s a pain to have to use the password for every commit (now more than 245), and it’s my laziness that held me back from setting up the key pair - now it works great!

By: Cheng Lee

Cheng Lee — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:18:01 +0000

I’d like to add a step in case it didn’t work with the instructions above. If you are still being asked for the password then you need to check the file permissions for the files in ~/.ssh

If those files are readable/writable by the group/world then it won’t work. You need to do this:

chmod -R go-rw ~/.ssh

Source: http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:05:43 +0000

I had the same problem but I fix it in another way.
I removed my subversion profile: sudo rm -rf ~/.subversion
use a svn command to regenerate it and now it worked.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:26:54 +0000

talv, I’m glad to know this article was useful for you!

By: talv

talv — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:10:11 +0000

great article! ive just set up my own repository and this password thing was driving me crazy!!! =D

By: Raymond

Raymond — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:17:38 +0000

Owen,

Right, I was surprised also to find out that I am asked to enter the svn password every time. Though my svn setup on my hosting server is now working perfectly, I’ll try to set it up in the typical setup you described here. I only need to find some time.

Thanks for dropping a comment.

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:59:30 +0000

Adding the svn pass to your kechain is usually the typical solution and the typical setup. I’m surprised that your setup wasn’t installed in such a way that it added it automatically.