<rbb@rkbloom.net> writes:
> I realize that most people would like to have an auth cache by default,
> but it is a security hole regardless of where you put the passwords on the
> box. You need to make sure that the user knows what they are doing before
> you write their password to the box. CVS makes it obvious by making you
> "login" before it writes your password to the HD. SVN just writes the
> password by default.
>
> I have no problem moving the auth cache out of the wc, I think that is a
> requirement, but the default needs to be not saving the password to the
> box. If people don't want to type their password on every operation, then
> they either shouldn't use the WebDav transport, or we should implement
> client certs (which is also on my short list of things to do).
I think the security/convenience tradeoff starts to swing the other
way at this point.
Getting them out of the WC is necessary. People expect (from CVS)
that a WC does not contain their passwords.
But having it in ~/.subversion/, in a location readable only by that
user and by root, is fine. Remember, we're talking about http basic
auth passwords here -- anyone who has root on the client box could
just sniff the network to get them too.
So I think storing them in ~/.subversion/ rather than the WC is a good
trade for us to make.
-Karl
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Received on Tue Jan 14 18:56:18 2003