Subversion (svn) problems with --non-interactive

Question

So this:

/usr/local/bin/svn up --force --no-auth-cache --username my_user

works fine (after I supply a password). While this:

/usr/local/bin/svn up --force --no-auth-cache --non-interactive --username my_name --password my_pass

depending on the svn version returns:

svn: E215004: Authentication failed and interactive prompting is disabled; see the --force-interactive option
svn: E215004: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://my_repository'
svn: E215004: No more credentials or we tried too many times.
Authentication failed

for Subversion 1.8.8 and:

svn: OPTIONS of 'https://my_repository': authorization failed (https://my_repository)

for Subversion 1.6.11.

All this is on the command line (bash) on a Fedora server.

Also this happens for some users and not others (we have svn users who can run with --non-interactive and others who can not, although their passwords are accepted when I run without --non-interactive). I tried deleting the ~/.subversion/auth/ directory and it properly gets recreated when I do svn up with credentials.

Pretty stumped at this point. Our repository provider advised we play with the --trust-server-cert option but I just get no response (errors or other messages) when I do:

/usr/local/bin/svn up --force --no-auth-cache --non-interactive --quiet --username my_name --password my_pass --trust-server-cert ~/.subversion/auth_iii/svn.ssl.server/my_cert

Appreciate your help...

Answer 1

False alarm. Turns out we had an unescaped ampersand in the password and that was throwing the whole thing off when in a script (this is why pasting the password when prompted worked). Feel stupid now...

Thanks everyone who read and replied...