SVN authentication cancelled [closed]

Question

I get the following error , both on my linux and windows boxes, when I build try to check out SVN tags from an ant build.

  [svn] <Checkout> started ...
  [svn] svn: authentication cancelled
  [svn] <Checkout> failed 

How do I resolve this? Funny thing is I can browse the repo via Tortoise SVN by entering my credentials.

It cannot be a "windows-has-cached-my-SVN-credtentials" issue. Since, I have cleared my SVN "auth" directory and it happens simulatnesouly on my Linux box which is oblivious to my Windows machine.

Answer 1

It depends on the version of the IDE, this problem appeared after IDEA 9 and in a first glance seems to be a bug connected to password encryption. Here you have an issue reported.

They say you need to tweak .subversion/servers and set it to

# Password / passphrase caching parameters:
  store-passwords = yes
  store-plaintext-passwords = yes
  store-ssl-client-cert-pp = yes
  store-ssl-client-cert-pp-plaintext = yes

NOTE : This will store the passwords as PLAIN TEXT!

But this one does not help for version 11. I fixed like this for my Community 11 version :

1) Went to Settings

2) Then Version Control-> Subversion

3) Pressed Clear Auth Cache

4) Went to Changes->Repository and pressed Refresh

IDEA asked me if I would like to accept the certificate

5) Answered Accept

Then It failed to refresh with "svn: authentication cancelled" error

But in Event Log I saw

11:20:12 AM svn: authentication cancelled
11:21:11 AM 0 changes committed, 1 change failed to commit: Toggle Listener more 
11:23:05 AM Not Logged In to Subversion: Click to fix. Not logged In to Subversion 'Subversion Repositories'

6) I klicked on "Click to fix"

Then IDEA asked me to enter account and password and I saw that the default user name that it used was my users name on my mac. After I entered the real name and password everything worked fine.