Svn ignoring --password and --username options

Question

Upon attempting an svn command to supply --username and --password, I keep getting prompted for the current user's password rather than the user that I specify in my command as --username. Instead, it still tries to use the current user for login and asks for its password, completely ignoring both the new user and password that I supply to it. And, even --no-auth-cache and --non-interactive have no effect on it. Plus, I'm trying to call these svn commands from a script, so I can't really afford showing such a prompt.

logged in as user1, attempting user2 login:

# $ svn update --username 'user2' --password 'password'
# user1@domain.com's password:

All other options work fine:

# $ svn --version --quiet
# 1.3.2

Why do I keep getting this prompt and why does it keep asking for user1's password instead of user2's?

All my permissions seem to be set correctly as well. I'm running svn 1.3.2 (r19776) on Fedora Core 5 (Bordeaux) and following is a list of my environment variables(None of them seem to apply to SVN though):

# HOSTNAME=XXXXXX
# TERM=xterm
# SHELL=/bin/sh
# HISTSIZE=1000
# KDE_NO_IPV6=1
# SSH_CLIENT=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX XXXXX XX
# QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.3
# QTINC=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/include
# SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/2
# USER=XXXXXX
# LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35:
# KDEDIR=/usr
# MAIL=/var/spool/mail/XXXXXX
# PATH=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
# INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
# PWD=/home/users/XXXXXX/my_repository
# KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1
# LANG=en_US.UTF-8
# SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
# SHLVL=1
# HOME=/home/users/XXXXXX
# LOGNAME=XXXXXX
# QTLIB=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib
# CVS_RSH=ssh
# SSH_CONNECTION=69.202.73.122 60998 216.7.19.47 22
# LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
# G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
# _=/bin/env
# OLDPWD=/home/users/XXXXXX

DataKing99 · Answer 1 · Oct 31, 2018

That prompt doesn't really look like Subversion asking you for a password, rather it seems like a ssh might be asking for a password.

So, I'm guessing you've used an svn+ssh to check out:// checkout, not an svn:// or http:// or https:// checkout. But, as per IIRC, all the options that you're trying will only work for the svn/http/https checkouts, thus, you should run svn info to confirm the kind of repository you are using.

And, If its a ssh, set up a key-based authentication so that your scripts can work without prompting for any password at all.