Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>
>>> If there is to be any more discussion of agent programs, please
>>> don't bastardise and clone the ssh-agent design -- as it does not
>>> apply to passwords very well at all. I suspect if someone *really*
>>> has some requirement to keep plaintext passwords off-disk, then
>>> password authentication will be unsuitable for their environment in
>>> the first place.
>>
>>
>>
>> So what's the alternative? Certificates and such usually require a
>> passphrase, too -- and if they don't, they're quite as insecure as
>> passwords.
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>
>
> Probable long term solution?:
>
> Create a new authentication module for Apache.
DAV isn't the only network transport for Subversion, so this isnt' a
solution.
-- Brane
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Received on Sun Jan 9 22:55:28 2005