Eclipse keeps asking for svn password

Question

Whenever I'm trying to synchronize/update my projects with SVN repo it asks me for password. It drives me nuts, I'm checking "save password" checkbox and it doesn't work at all.. what is more, I cant use a simple password.

It might be somehow connected with my company's proxy but eclipse plugin update sites work just fine.

I have a Subversion directory in my AppData dir, maybe I should delete this? I can also provide additional info, I just don't know what may be relevant.

I'm using Subclipse with JavaHL provider and my Eclipse version is 4.4.2 but I have the same problem on Eclipse 3.7.2

Answer 1

Here's what worked for me. I went to Window/Preferences/Team and saw that there were two "SVN" sub-menus. I'm not sure how I got to this state, but I may have installed both Subversion and Subclipse at some point.

Anyway, in the first SVN submenu, there is a tab for SVN Connector. And in the other SVN menu, there is a subsection labelled "SVN interface". Both of these provide a drop-down list to select a connector/interface. In my case, in the first SVN menu, the SVN Connector was set to "SVNKit". In the second SVN menu, it was set to "JavaHL". I changed this to SVNKit, and have had no problems since.

Answer 2

This one worked well : http://www.thinkplexx.com/learn/howto/ide/eclipse/fix-eclipse-svn-always-asking-for-login-and-password-clear-keyring-or-cache

There is some files to delete :

• Delete (or rename .old) in Eclipse : /configuration/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.keyring
• Remove the file in your profile (AppData/Roaming or ~) : /.subversion/auth/svn.simple

Go to SVN perspective and enter login/password. Should keep it now.

Answer 3

What worked for me was going to Window->Preferences->Team then under 'SVN Interface' select the 'SVNKit (Pure Java)' option.

Answer 4

None of the current answers worked for me in eclipse neon. Therefore I edited hash file in /.subversion/auth/svn.simple/[filename] I added password informarion:

K 15
svn:realmstring
V 51
<https://svn.example.com:443> Subversion Repository
K 8
username
V [length_of_username]
[username[
K 8 
password
V [length_of_password]
[password]
END

Answer 5

This is what has just worded for me (Mars, subclipse, SVNKit): I read the $WORKSPACE/.metadata/.log file, and found this:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.runtime 2 0 2015-09-04 09:24:33.282^M
!MESSAGE Authorization infrastructure (org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility.auth) not installed.
!STACK 0
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.auth.AuthorizationDatabase cannot be found by org.eclipse.core.runtime_3.11.0.v20150405-1723

Duckduckgoed the package name org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility.auth and found it in Maven repository, where I downloaded the jar file, which I copied into my $ECLIPSE_HOME/dropins directory. After restarting eclipse there was no error in the log, I was just asked once my master password. No more annoying password dialogs since then.