[SVN-1247] Username/port selection for ssh tunnelling

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: libsvn_ra_svn

Environment

Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 16/Apr/03 23:36
• Updated: 05/Oct/05 16:48
• Resolved: 05/Oct/05 16:48

Description

With the current implementation of tunnelled svn:// access, it's
difficult to control the authentication, port number or other
arguments to an ssh tunnel.  The most obvious thing to do is to add a
username/port to the svn:// URI on the commandline, but these
attributes are ignored in the current implementation.

I'll attach a couple of patches which add support for ssh/rsh/rlogin
arguments by honoring URI username/port attributes or by adding two
svn-tunnel-* configuration options to the group configuration.  The
latter is arguably more correct (since it's the tunnel's parameters
being given, not those of the repository), but the former is rather
more convenient and matches user expectations.

Original issue reported by devin