title: What is the cause and solution to SVN: Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic challenge?
body: <p>If you search around the web you will see this question asked a lot but there are no clear answers. Here is my particular case.</p>
  
  <p>I am using Versions SVN client on a mac but I get the same problem when using the command line. I have personal repo credentials to someone else's repo and it is working on my one machine where I set it up 6 months ago.</p>
  
  <p>I copied my .ssh folder from my user directory to a different machine, installed versions on that machine, and set up by login credentials, only it is failing with the following message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>authorization failed: Could not authenticate to server: rejected Basic
    challenge</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The URL for the repo is using https, but i removed the 's' and tried non-secure, same problem. I then deleted my .ssh folder from my other computer, same problem. Someone else said this error is related to SVN trying to use basic auth (http) and failing. This is not much help to me because I have no idea what to do to fix it. My login credentials are good, but this error message is probably one of the least descriptive and worst written that I have dealt with. How do I fid this problem??</p>