VisualSVN is annoying me by asking me to enter my login & password many times
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22-07-2019 - |
Question
My VisualVSN is hooked up to Active Directory. I'm using Tortoise as the client. When I was using SVNSERVE and the text files for authentication, it only asks me for the login/password once. Now it's asking me it many times when I connect. To get around that, I would have to check the "save authentication" information checkbox. I could do that but I don't want my password stored in plaintext somewhere on my computer. Isn't there a way for me to get it to recognize the fact that I'm already logged in to my PC as a valid domain user and use my session information to authenticate me?
Solution
If you use the "save authentication" feature, your password is not saved in plaintext but encrypted with your logon credentials. You can check it yourself: the auth data is saved under %APPDATA%\Subversion\auth - you won't find plaintext in there (unless you're using Win9x).
OTHER TIPS
Are you aksing about VisualVSN Server or the Visual Studio plugin or both?
What protocol are you using? Try to connect to svn with https - that way it can use SSPI for authentication and you don't have to enter the password at all.