On MacOS, it will ask for username/password every time after VSCode restart

[netsesame2]

• VSCode Version: 1.37.0
• OS Version: Darwin x64 18.7.0
• Extension Version:1.54.4
• System Language:English
• SVN Version:1.8.13

Issue

Recently, every time when I restart VSCode, SVN will ask for username and password. However, when I offer the username and password, it works, but when I restart VSCode, it ask again. I'm nearly crazy.

Steps to Reproduce

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[JohnstonCode]

Do you have the issue on an older version fo the extension?

[netsesame2]

@JohnstonCode The older version works well

[JohnstonCode]

Which version?

[netsesame2]

@JohnstonCode I forgot to get the old version...

[netsesame2]

@JohnstonCode To my strange, two different projects, using the same SVN server, one is OK, and the other need uname/password every time.

[JohnstonCode]

Can you copy the output of "View >> Output >> OUTPUT >> SVN" from each of the projects please

[netsesame2]

OK, I'll send you later.

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[netsesame2]

The following output both copied after restart vscode.
The svn output which works well:

Using svn "1.8.13" from "/usr/local/bin/svn"
[ErrorbookWeb]$ svn info --xml /Users/netsesame/Projects/ErrorbookWeb/caches/configs/product.php
[ErrorbookWeb]$ svn info --xml
[ErrorbookWeb]$ svn cat caches/configs/product.php
[ErrorbookWeb]$ svn stat --xml --no-ignore --ignore-externals --show-updates

Another which works always ask username:

Using svn "1.8.13" from "/usr/local/bin/svn"
[ErrorbookApp3]$ svn info --xml /Users/netsesame/Projects/ErrorbookApp3/src/global.scss
[ErrorbookApp3]$ svn cat src/global.scss
[ErrorbookApp3]$ svn info --xml
[ErrorbookApp3]$ svn stat --xml --no-ignore --ignore-externals --show-updates
[ErrorbookApp3]$ svn: E170001: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://www.shikongzi.com/mysa_app3'
[ErrorbookApp3]$ svn: E170001: Can't get username or password

[Constantiner]

I have the same issue on MacOS X and it was the same all the time I used extension. I suppose extension has some problems with Keychain access but very possibly I've mistaken.

Vote for fixing that!

[Constantiner]

Yesterday I've solved it on MacOS. It is definitely related to Keychain. SVN extension asks username/password on VS Code start up on MacOS when password is storing in Keychain.

You can go to ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple and find there a file with your SVN domain and username. It will contain something like:

K 8
passtype
V 8
keychain

and it tells us it stores password in Keychain. To solve it (I mean to make it work with current version of SVN extension) just delete this file, then add the following to the [auth] section of ~/.subversion/config file:

password-stores=

Then run the following in Terminal in your project's catalog:

svn up

and enter your login/password there. After that find newly created file for your SVN domain in ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple and make sure it contains something like the following:

K 8
passtype
V 6
simple

Unfortunately it will contain your SVN password in plain text and it is not great for security reasons but we need to wait for fix of SVN extension's Macos Keychain access issue to return back to secure stroing of Subversion passwords.

Now you can restart your VS Code and it should not request for SVN username/password.

[netsesame2]

Thanks for @Constantiner. I followed your advise, and found another simple way to resolve it.

1. Goto ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple
2. Find and delete the config file which contains my svn site.
3. Open the Keychain Tool in control center, remove the related key.
4. Goto my project folder, run 'svn up --username xxxx --password xxxx'
5. Reopen VSCode. it will be OK.

[fattoliu]

Thanks for @Constantiner . I've solved it on macOS Catalina. Cool!!

[JohnstonCode]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 2.6.2 🎉

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