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Re: Password stored in clear text!

From: Jeremy Pereira <jeremyp_at_jeremyp.net>
Date: 2006-08-23 14:53:22 CEST

On 23 Aug 2006, at 11:30, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Aug 23, 2006, at 03:51, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>>> Karl Fogel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In fact, I'd *love* to be able to compile Subversion so that it's
>>>>> svn
>>>>> client refuses to store such passwords. If I wrote in such a
>>>>> compile-time option as a patch, could I get support for it? I'd
>>>>> definitely prefer to see the clients compiled this paranoid way.
>>>>
>>>> If you're in a situation where you can distribute such clients,
>>>> could you just distribute the appropriate ~/.subversion/
>>>> configurations instead? No need for a recompile, just set people's
>>>> config bits before they start using Subversion.
>>>
>>> How could I hope to enforce that without appropriately compiled
>>> subversion clients?
>>
>> Well how would you enforce that someone will use your specially-
>> compiled client and not any other normal client they could download
>> from anywhere?
>
> Well, true. It's most easily enforceable on machines where I'm the
> sys-admin, and could put my copy in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

PATH=$HOME/unauthorisedsvn/bin:$PATH
export PATH
svn ....

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