Re: svnadmin create and not being method agnostic

Les Mikesell wrote on Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:43:58 -0600:
> On 1/4/2011 8:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>> This is a very large and longstanding issue for me and others, and has
>> led to clients of mine rejecting Subversion outright. And it looks
>> like a legacy of Subversion's re-implementation of CVS, described as
>> "CVS done right". CVS security was even worse.
>
> I'd say instead that it looks like a lack of a suitable cross-platform
> security library - or more specifically a lack of a suitable OS facility
> in Linux to manage per-user application passwords.
>

If anyone has a weekend to spare, please take the time to write glue
code that connects svn_auth.h with some crypto library: 'gpg -c' or
'openssl enc' or GPGME or some other library.

The starting point on svn's side is the 'provider' interface in svn_auth.h.

> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
>
Received on 2011-01-07 19:07:54 CET