RE: svnserve password store in clear text

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 10:26, Mark Phippard wrote:
> svnserve was at least somewhat meant to be a simple alternative to Apache,
> and that includes the authentication options.

You're right. I implemented CRAM-MD5 (which is not a terribly great
mechanism) because I could do it in 200 lines of code. I used plaintext
passwords so that I didn't have to spend another few hundred lines of
code on a Subversion-specific utility for managing the password DB. I
don't feel that every daemon should be implementing its own
authentication options; that stuff belongs in a library.

Unfortunately, I'm not too comfortable with the libraries currently out
there, particularly Cyrus SASL. I'm encouraged that libgsasl has gone
LGPL, and will take a closer look at it at some point.

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Received on Thu Jun 3 18:17:28 2004