bzr-svn and gnome-keyring...

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:37:06PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 18 March 2010 04:52, John Szakmeister <john at szakmeister.net> wrote:
> > I thought I saw an email earlier where someone had a similar problem,
> > but I can't seem to find it. ?In Subversion, I've told it to store my
> > password using gnome-keyring. ?Using the svn command line client, it
> > all works fine. ?If, I try to create a local branch with bzr-svn, I
> > get a password prompt. ?Is there some reason that it's not falling
> > back to svn's credential store? ?I thought this was an issue last
> > year, but it had been resolved (it certainly seems to work if I let it
> > store the password in plaintext on the disk). ?Thoughts?
> >
> > Also, I can't seem to find this anywhere either, but can bzr use
> > gnome-keyring directly? ?I got things working with bzr-keychain, but I
> > do have to use Linux quite frequently as well.
> 
> Apparently bzr-gtk can get passwords from gnome-keyring.  I'm not sure
> exactly when this is active and it's not described in the keyring
> readme (but it may be elsewhere.)  (I use ssh keys and rarely use
> passwords.)

It can get existing passwords from the keyring and will be used as the 
final fallback (if there's no password found in e.g. 
~/.bazaar/authentication.conf). It won't prompt you for a password or update 
the keyring with passwords found elsewhere.

Cheers,

Jelmer