Using multiple accounts on a SVN server

Right now, I have two different accounts on the same SVN server. Subversion saves the password for the last user, but seems to forget about the other one.

The problem is that I need to authentificate myself everytime I switch from one project to another. Is the开发者_高级运维re a way to avoid this?

By the way, I'm using the default svn client on linux.

I've never tried this, but how about using two different aliases/host names for the same server?

I imagine the SVN client would store different credentials because it thinks it's talking to a different server.

You'd have to set this up in your DNS or local hosts configuration. I can't think of any side effects right now, except in cases where you have to use a server name within the repository (e.g. with externals).

Hmm. I think (not tried it) that you need to use different realms in your svn server.

See client Credentials Caching in the redbook. It says you'll have several cache files - 1 for each user.

Does your SVN server offer access via different transports?

E.g. in our environments we commonly use svn+ssh and are able to specify different users in a way like this:

svn co svn+ssh://userid@server/project/...

You can set up a second $HOME/.subversion config directory, and:

svn --username second_user --config-dir second_dir cmd ...