In SVN how do I override automatic Windows domain authentication

Question

I have a build server that is not part of a Windows domain trying to connect to a VisualSVN server running HTTPS via apache with domain login via Active Directory. When I t

Answer 1

The solution I found was to disable the http-auth-type 'negotiate'. This prevents Windows credentials being automatically shared.

I verified this using a command-line override, it asked for password for the user on the command-line:

svn ls --username=domainuser --config-option servers:global:http-auth-types=basic;digest https://subversion.mydomain/svn/repo1/
Authentication realm:  VisualSVN Server
Password for 'domainuser': 

(Note for Cygwin users: If you use SVN under Windows via Cygwin then you will need to add quotes to your command like this: $ svn ls --username=domainuser --config-option "servers:global:http-auth-types=basic;digest" https://subversion.mydomain/svn/repo1/ -- Otherwise the semicolon will be treated as a command delimiter.)

To configure this more permanently you can make a servers config file entry for all matching servers. For Win7 that's C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Subversion\servers.

[groups]
mydomain = *.mydomain

[mydomain]
http-auth-types=basic;digest