Question

Assuming that I cannot run something like this with Fabric:

run("svn update --password 'password' .")

how’s the proper way to pass to Fabric the password for the remote interactive command line?

The problem is that the repo is checked out as svn+ssh and I don’t have a http/https/svn option

Answer 1

Try SSHkey. It allows you to connect to the server without password.
In this case, you will have to setup a sshkey between your remote server and the repo.

At remote server: Generate key pair

 $ ssh-keygen -t dsa

Leave the passphase empty!
This will generate 2 files

• ~/.ssh/id_dsa (private key)
• ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (public key)

Then, append the content in id_dsa.pub to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys at repo server.

Your remote server will be able to update the source tree without any password required.