How to change or clear your Subversion password used by eclipse plugins on Mac OS X

I assume that you are using Eclipse Galileo on Mac Os X Snow Leopard, with JavaHL SVN client.

It happened to me that once I updated the password of my account on the subversion server machine, Eclipse did not allow me to connect to the repository anymore; moreover it did not ask me for a new password, I merely got errors like "The folder does not exists on remote server" and authentication errors on the Eclipse SVN Console.

After googleing for a while, I did not find the solution yet, and so I started to play around. Finally I solved the problem and I post the solution here; I hope it can save you some time :-)

You have to open the "Keychain" application from "Applications" --> "Utilities" --> "Keychain"

There you will find an "application password" related to SVN: mine contains something like "https://svn.host.com/". You double click on it and you change your stored password with the new one.

Now if you close Eclipse and then you open it again, it will notice that the SVN password was changed and when you will try to access the repository again, Eclipse will ask you the username/password couple again. You can type the new password again, and you can "save" it if you want. The new password is set.

Hope that helped! :-)