Subversion hook updating externals autentification error

Question

I have a post-commit hook that is updating a working copy. In that working copy some of the files are externals witch have authentication. Is there a way to pass the login credentials to the svn update only for the externals ?

Right now it does the update but because the external asks for login, it fails to update the external library.

Answer 1

No, not separately.

One way of getting the credentials available to the Subversion client is to log in as that user, say with sudo or su, and manually do a checkout from all the web sites into /tmp so they get stored. Then the client running during the post-commit should work.