title: Jenkins & caching of SVN Credentials
body: <p>Like a lot of people I am banging my head (again) against Jenkins and the subversion plugin.
  Authenication through the website (enter credentials) fails on authentication.
  Funny, since I can access svn with the same credentials.</p>
  
  <p>I have deleted:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>$HOME/.subversion</code></li>
  <li>all entries in the <code>hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.xml</code></li>
  <li>the svn credentials in the job</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>What happend that it broke down? I reinstalled the <code>jenkins.war</code> in tomcat and ever since, Jenkins could not access svn anymore.</p>
  
  <p>I've been down this road before and due to the trail-error situation never got to understand how this pain-in-the-arse setup works, to prevent this problem the next time.</p>