How to change password using TortoiseSVN?

Question

I need to change my SVN password. I am using the TortoiseSVN client. I cannot find a password change or add a custom parameter.

Is it possible? Is there any work or command line syntax for creating an SVN user or editing users?

Answer 1

Password changes are processed by the subversion server administrator. There is no password change option as a user.

Contact your server administrator.

If you are an administrator, find your SVN Server installation. If you don’t know where it is, it could be specified in Start-> Programs running under services in the Start-> Control Panel-> Services menu, or it can be specified in the C: \ Program Files folder.

The SVN server must have a startup application in order to add / change / delete authentication and users.

Answer 2

To change the password for accessing Subversion

This will usually be handled by the Subversion server administrator. If you and you use integrated authentication, edit the [repository]\conf\passwd on the Subversion server.

To remove locally cached credentials

Follow these steps:

• Right-click on the desktop and select TortoiseSVN-> Settings
• Select Saved Data .
• Click Clear Authentication Data .

The next time you try to perform an action that requires credentials, you will be asked to indicate.

If you use the svn.exe command line, use the --no-auth-cache option so that you can specify alternate credentials without caching them against your Windows user.

Answer 3

You cannot change your password through TortoiseSVN. Authentication to the SVN server must be changed in the SVN server itself.

How you actually achieve this depends on which SVN server stores the repository and how the SVN Server was hosted on your computer.

n Windows environment, credentials are usually stored in <yoursvnroot>\conf\passwd .

In a Linux environment, this can be as described above, or in many other ways, depending on how they are placed.

Answer 4

On the server .. In our environment, we are running Apache2 on Windows Server 2003.
Suppose Apache serves our repository from C: \ repo \ MyProject

The actual repository is located in C: \ repo \ MyProject \ db

and the configuration is in the folder C: \ repo \ MyProject \ conf

So the passwords are in: C: \ repo \ MyProject.htaccess

They are encrypted, similar to this tool: http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/

Answer 5

Replace the line in the htpasswd file:

go to: http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator-windows/

(if the link has expired, find another generator from google.com)

Enter your username and password. The site will generate an encrypted string. Copy this line and replace it with the previous line in the file "repo / htpasswd".

You may also need to “clear” the “Authentication” data from tortoisSVN → settings → stored data

Answer 6

Today I changed my Windows password and Tortoise refused to connect me to the SVN server. I went around it, opening the Dos window and making "svn co ...". This prompted new credentials, and then happily completed its work. After that, the turtle also works.