SVN client authentication error

Question

I have the following error when ever I try to connect to a SVN server on my network:

Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge

Can anyone help?

You need to be more accurate with the information. What svn client you use, what svn server, on what OS are you trying (client / server) and so on if you want accurate answers — Anarko_Bizounours, Jun 12 '12 at 11:17

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '10 at 09:07

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rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring helped me.... afterwards I had to re-enter my password when checking out with svn checkout -username tom https://servername.domain/

answered Jun 08 '10 at 09:07

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+1, your answer helped me too. – zmf Jul 30 '10 at 18:11

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 28 '13 at 10:48

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follow these steps if you are facing this issue(on ubuntu)

type this command: svn ls http://[subversionpath] ,it will ask for authentication. enter you password if promoted for
type ant command

This should work.

edited Jan 28 '13 at 10:48

Kuf

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answered Aug 10 '10 at 09:10

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '09 at 18:36

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You've got bad credentials in your http(s) svn url. The error message is telling you that it's trying to use http Basic Auth and failing.

answered Jun 04 '09 at 18:36

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 02 '11 at 08:15

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You can add

password-stores = #intentionally left blank

in your ~/.subversion/config file eventually combined with --non-interactive --trust-server-cert args to the subversion command to avoid this.

answered Sep 02 '11 at 08:15

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 10 '12 at 16:15

I ran into the same problem and in fact it results in the point, that SVN doesn't save your login information locally.

I was able to fix this problem by doing the following steps:

1.) I edited my SVN config like this:

`store-passwords = yes`
`store-auth-creds = yes`

2.)

svn ls REPOSITORY_PATH

using my correct user data.

After this procedure SVN has stored your login data locally. This fixed my problems.

Have a nice day!

SVN client authentication error

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