svn checkout via ssh prompts for password several times

[anevilyak]

If I try to do an svn co via svn+ssh using Michael Lotz's svn package + OpenSSH, it first asks me to accept the key like normal, but then asks for my password three times. This doesn't appear to be a negotiation failure since intentionally mistyping my password does result in it indicating a password error and re-prompting, while typing it correctly results in an additional prompt, but no warning/error. After typing it in three times, the checkout starts like it should. Anything that can be done to verify where the problem is here?

[bonefish]

The same happens in Linux (tested with Subversion 1.4.4). svn seems to open three connections (or one connection three times). I seem to recall having read quite a while ago that they wanted to fix that. Obviously they haven't.