Wednesday, February 1, 2017

SVN: Error running context: An error occurred during authentication

Problem Statement: My corporate laptop suddenly started giving "Error: Error running context: An error occurred during authentication" on all Tortoise SVN requests. I switched to subclipse, and I got same. I switched to command line, and I got same!

Root Cause: My corporate password had changed and somehow all SVN clients were using the old password.

Fix:
I see multiple fixes mentioned online, eg http://stackoverflow.com/questions/914895/how-to-change-credentials-for-svn-repository-in-eclipse and http://www.wandisco.com/svnforum/forum/opensource-subversion-forums/general-setup-and-troubleshooting/tortoisesvn-community-support/12445-basic-authentication-not-working and others, but 

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