Heavy use of TortoiseSVN / Subversion NT locks User account

Question

This is strange, which is directly related to programming, but I thought it was important to ask, not ServerFault.com, since it is directly related to using TortoiseSVN / Subversion.

Basically, in normal use, TortoiseSVN works absolutely fine with our Subversion repository, but since I am responsible for our continuous integration build scripts, I am actually quite a heavy user in this regard and found that it causes quite a problem when my user account NT is blocked.

The support team is probably tired of having my account unlocked, but I know that this is related to my SVN transactions.

Has anyone had this problem? If so, what can I do to stop him or at least curb him?

Answer 1

Problem detected: I used the data of my SVN account on a remote server that still had it after the password expired.

Just finding this was a serious problem, but taught me better control over the use of my login credentials!

Answer 2

Are you running build scripts manually or are you using CruiseControl or something similar? We have CCNet running the SVN repository using a special domain account, and it had no problems.

What makes you sure that interacting with SVN will block your account - you see any errors or any of the logs.

My understanding of account lockout is that this happens when a user enters a wrong password too many times. Is your account locked out shortly after changing your password?

Answer 3

I used to run CC.NET in my domain account; I got this behavior when I had to reset my password.

The only way I could do this without blocking my account was to log in to create a server, change my password, change the use of the password service, and then restart the server.

It seems that CC.NET starts some other processes at startup that do not update the password before rebooting. If I did not reboot, it takes about 2 minutes for my active directory account.

So yes ... I had a similar problem. The solution, like DilbertDave, will ask you to use a dedicated account.

Kindness,

Dan

Answer 4

I would suggest that your domain administrator will find out, or at least get the best tools to determine the exact reason your account is becoming blocked. Maybe some security rule worked (is the Subversion repository connected to your domain for authentication?)

We have never had such problems with the dedicated NT users that we use for our CruiseControl collections, so all I can do is unfortunately speculate.