SVN client authentication error

I have the following error when ever I try to connect to a SVN server on my network:

Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge

Can anyone help?


rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring helped me.... afterwards I had to re-enter my password when checking out with svn checkout -username tom https://servername.domain/


You've got bad credentials in your http(s) svn url. The error message is telling you that it's trying to use http Basic Auth and failing.


You can add

password-stores = #intentionally left blank

in your ~/.subversion/config file eventually combined with --non-interactive --trust-server-cert args to the subversion command to avoid this.


follow these steps if you are facing this issue(on ubuntu)

  1. type this command: svn ls http://[subversionpath] ,it will ask for authentication. enter you password if promoted for
  2. type ant command

This should work.