How do I prevent SVN from caching credentials for a single repository?

svn version-control collabnet
mkelley33 picture mkelley33 · Nov 1, 2009 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

I'm using Collabnet SVN client versions 1.5 & 1.6. My local machine is running Windows Vista x64 (I know, very sad indeed). I would like to force authentication every time I try to perform any subversion operations on a selected repository. How might I set a property or setting to require authentication every time? Thanks for the help and suggestions!

Answer

Peter Parker picture Peter Parker · Nov 1, 2009

You have 2 Solutions:

  1. use the --no-auth-cache switch on all of your commands

  2. edit the Subverison config file (%APPDATA%\Subversion\config )and look for commented line:

# store-passwords = no

and remove the "#" at start of the line. This will switch off Password caching permanently.

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