Password is not Saving in Neon on Mac OSX about subclipse HOT 6 CLOSED

I seem to have solved it. From OSX's "Keychain Access" app, I see an entry under Category > Passwords for the SVN server. On that entry, I:

• Double-clicked
• Access Control
  • Ensure "Confirm before allowing access" is selected.
  • Select "Eclipse" and remove it with the "-" button.
  • Click "Save Changes" button

Back in Eclipse, perform an SVN operation. A dialog will appear: "Eclipse wants to use your confidential... Do you want to allow access to this item? Choose "Always Allow".

Now I don't have to login for every operation.

Side note: It doesn't seem to matter (to Subclipse, anyway) whether the SVN config file has password-stores = keychain commented in or out. I tried it both ways (redoing the whole process above), and it worked.

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Subclipse has no control over this, it is up to the API which in your case seems to be SVNKit. The checkbox just corresponds to a boolean in the SVN API that tells it you are OK with it saving the password. It is then up to the API to actually do it or not.

I do not know if SVNKit tries to store using the OSX Keyring or a custom file or ...

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It does not help a lot but Google reminded me that SVNKit stores passwords in the Eclipse keyring. So perhaps it cannot for some reason. Not sure where you go from here but that is something to look at. I recall there are some Eclipse preferences related to the keyring.

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For what it's worth, my colleagues and I are using JavaHL with Subclipse. Does that change things?

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Based on info provided above you are using SVNKit.

That said, JavaHL (native Subversion) stores passwords in the OSX keychain by default. Though ultimately it is determined by what you have in ~/.subversion/config

This Stackoverflow post does not have an "answer" but the info the poster provides in their question could be useful for debugging on your end. Maybe you will have better luck than they did by following some of the same steps. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44607276/subclipse-problems-accessing-svn-credentials-in-keychain-on-macos-sierra

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I'll take a look at the SO post.

In the meantime I see that my OP was misleading about the use of SVNKit. While I had the plugin component installed, I had selected JavaHL as Subclipse's SVN interface:

For kicks, I've now completely removed the SVNKit components, and a search for sub in Eclipse Installation Details yields:

• Maven SCM handler for Subclipse 1.0.0.201609101315 org.sonatype.m2e.subclipse.feature.feature.group Subclipse
  • Subclipse 4.2.2.201612131538 org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.feature.group Subclipse
• Subclipse Integration for Mylyn (Optional) 4.2.0.1 org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.mylyn.feature.feature.group Subclipse
• Subversion Revision Graph 4.2.0.1 org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.graph.feature.feature.group Subclipse

For what it's worth, the problem remains.

I'd also tried the default SVN config file, as well as with password-stores = keychain, but that made no difference.

On to SO...

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