I am planning on using a local repository, using only TortoiseSVN's "create repository here" feature.
The repo is created and I can read and write to it just fine. The problem is that I can't get authentication to work. I thought I wanted Windows authentication, but I actually want the simple text-file based authentication so I can force the current system user (i.e. any person can be using the same Windows account and I want to differentiate between them) to provide their name and password. I haven't found any information on how to do this without svnserve running.
So far, I have modified svnserve.conf like this:
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
realm = LocalOnly
I didn't mess with the [sasl] section.
I also modified passwd:
[users]
harry = teH0wLIpW0gyQ
I am trying to use encrypted passwords created with a simple perl script. However, regardless of what I do with the repo (i.e. including writing to the repo), I am never prompted for a password.
I tried clearing TortoiseSVN's authentication cache since I do connect to a remote repo, but this didn't matter at all.
Has anyone tried this and succeeded? Or is it not possible without svnserve?
Not possible without svnserve - it takes care of the challenge/response.
Try Subversion Edge. you can edit the file you are mentioning using the GUI provided by the tool. It uses its own http server(not svnserve or IIS).
Unfortunately your best bet with a local repository is to use your file system permissions. A simple and free option for a server (that's easy to manager) would be VisualSVN Server. You can hang it off or a workstation or drop it on a public webserver somewhere. I now have mine setup with a reverse proxy with IIS7 so it's integrated with the rest of my web site.
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I use gitlab since some years.
After an update of my mac book, one application fails on deploy with deployer.
fatal: could not read Username for 'http://mygitlab.org:22': terminal prompts disabled
I use the same gitlab server for all projects. The other projects are working well.
I compared the gig config file. No differences between the applications.
I tried to set/change the username. No success
I created a new repo on gitlab, and cloned it into my php storm. No success
Has someone an idea, where i have to search?
Thanks in advance!
Check the URL of that repository. A port 22 is the default one used by SSH, so seeing an HTTP URL used is strange, and would trigger a prompt for the username.
This differs from a git#mygitlab.org: URL (or ssh://git#mygitlab.org:22/...), which should not need any prompt, if the right SSH key is used (and has no passphrase, or if the passphrase is cached in an ssh-agent).
I am using Mac OS as my main operating system. I installed fedora 37 server edition in a VMware workstation as part of my course in college. I am trying to customize my prompt using this repo https://github.com/andresgongora/synth-shell.
I have installed git already. I also have power line-fonts installed. The issue I am having comes with this command: git clone --recursive https://github.com/andresgongora/synth-shell.git
When typed and executed I get a prompt asking me for a GitHub username and password. I enter my credentials and I get an error stating "Authentication Failed for https://github.com/andresgongora/synth-shell.git" even though my credentials are correct.
I have tried putting my username and password (both combinations separately) and I get an event error. I configured a global username and that doesn't work either.
Am I supposed to log in to my GitHub before cloning this repo? Does anyone else experience this or have a workaround?
I have tried putting my username and password (both combinations separately) and I get an event error. I configured a global git username and that doesn't work either.
Sites used:
Can't clone a github repo on Linux via HTTPS
https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/setting-your-username-in-git
https://documentation.red-gate.com/soco/troubleshooting/authentication-failed-when-cloning-from-github
Edit: I have also tried setting up a token to log in with. The only issue I am having is my linux distro does not support copy and paste so I am having to type everything out. When the password prompt comes up everything is blank to hide your password so I can't even check for spelling errors.
As of mid 2021, github the company is now enforcing git HTTPS authentication to use an access token rather than username+password. See this stackoverflow answer for full information.
One way forward is to generate an SSH key, and upload the public portion to github.
It warrants mentioning that this change is specific to Github Inc., the Microsoft subsidiary. There have not been any changes to git, the distributed version control system. Other, similar repository hosting services may not necessarily bar you from authenticating via username+password. Gitlab is one example.
I managed to fix my issue by using cockpit in my web browser. Doing this allowed my to copy and paste my information and everything worked first try.
Beginner problem.
This might be flagged as a duplicate, I've tried all the fixes in the similar questions that popped up on the search, but none worked.
Basically, I was using my company's GitLab account to do my pushing, but decided to switch to my personal account for some reasons. Except I can't find a way to do that.
The ~/.git-credentials file doesn't exist, when I try to open it nano just gives me a new file. The ~/.git-config file already contains my personal account's email and username (but no password), and my commits on the repository page on GitLab are attributed to my personal account. However, Git never asked for the password (so I doubt it's actually logged in). Also, the contributions aren't showing up on my personal Overview page (the little colorful calendar thingy), instead they are showing up on the previous account's Overview page.
I also tried these two (separately):
git config --global --unset credential.helper
git credential-cache exit
No changes whatsoever. Still letting me push without asking for credentials, and commits still showing up on the wrong account's Overview.
I checked out the git-credential-store documentation as well (as suggested in a similar question), and for whatever it's worth, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is empty and $HOME/.config/git/ doesn't exist either.
Someone else suggested going to Access Tokens on the GitLab website and deleting the corresponding token there, but it says "This user has no active access tokens."
I even tried ye olde uninstalling and reinstalling Git and it changed absolutely nothing.
I'm at my wits' end. Any idea where these darned credentials might be stored, or a way to force logout?
EDIT: A coworker partially fixed it for me. I had both accounts authenticated via SSH, and GitLab was only using the one I connected first, which was the corporate account.
I deleted both SSH keys, generated a new pair and this time authenticated only my personal account. It's working now. I wanted a way that I could switch between accounts (I have to use both) without having to re-authenticate via SSH every time, and if anyone still has an idea, I'm open to it.
The repos are cloned via SSH. Which is strange, because even then, the first time I pushed, it asked me for username and password. Only that time and then never again.
That looks like HTTPS URLs though. Check that with a git remote -v inside the repository.
Any credential helper setting that you would manipulate would only influence HTTPS URLS.
It is is SSH, then you would need to change those URLS to use an ~/.ssh/config entry
Host <HostEntry>
Hostname xxxx.xx.xx
User ubuntu
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_second_key.pem
With the new URL being:
ssh <HostEntry>
I work in a linux system with a windows proxy account. The password must change aways at the end of the month. Nowdays i need to go to a windows machine, change my password and go back to my linux machine.
The password is used for others internal services too. (like private email, git access, database access, etc).
I want to change my password without the help of a windows. I want to do it on linux. It can be done?
This is really the wrong forum: I'd suggest trying serverfault.com.
SUGGESTION:
It sounds like smbpasswd might be a solution: http://serverfault.com.
I have a Windows Server 2003 running Mercurial's hgwebdir.cgi to serve repositories. Push/Pull etc is working as expected for existing repositories.
Currently I'm using remote desktop If I need a new repository on the server.
Is there a better way to do it? Command line, web interface, cgi?
Mercurial by itself only allows for the creation of repositories locally or over ssh. For http you need to either log in to the server via command line and hg init or via RDP and do essentially the same.
It is, however, very easy to create a small CGI script that will create new remote repositories over HTTP. Here's one I built that works on unix and is likely easily adapted to windows:
http://ry4an.org/unblog/UnBlog/2009-09-17
currently , running hg init where you want the repository is the way to do it, any other way would require hgwebdir to implement some kind of security better left to other/better/more os specific tools. It's not that much of a leap to imagine that the HG devs rather focus on the versioning of files than reinventing the wheel with security, at least right now.