Or you could access the repository using svn+ssh:// and use ssh-agent
and ssh-add....
Michael
On Sep 23, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Robert Simmons wrote:
> Well, I don’t know about this agent stuff. However, if you want to
> preserve
> logins so the user doesn’t have to login again, why not do something
> like a
> certificate. *shrug* I just know that SVN is not the only program that
> has
> this problem. Unix has been dealing with such a thing for ssh for 20
> years
> at least and have solved it somehow.
>
> I would think this should be a major issue for corporations intending
> to use
> subversion.
>
> -- Robert
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olh@suse.de]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 19:33
>> To: Jani Averbach
>> Cc: kraythe@arcor.de; dev@subversion.tigris.org
>> Subject: Re: SVN Password stored in Plaintext!!!!
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, Jani Averbach wrote:
>>
>>> On 2004-09-23 19:07+0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 23, kraythe@arcor.de wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> One thing I noted while browsing through my subversion profile is
>> that the passwords for my subversion access are stored in a file in
>> plaintext! This is something that I dfind disturbing. How much trouble
>> would it be to encrypt them and then have the server accept an
>> encrypted
>> version of the password? It would be really cool if companies could
>> install their pgp key on their subversion server in order to do the
>> encryption.
>>>>
>>>> I have a job opportunity for you:
>>>
>>> If you accept that offer, please take look of that thread:
>>>
>>> Subject: [PATCH] default to --no-auth-cache
>>> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:23:16 +0100
>>> Message-ID: <3E247FC4.7020205@xbc.nu>
>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=29065
>>
>> so, someone already did the work? Good.
>> Our guys did not find the svn-agent in the 1.0.x documentation.
>> I dont see it in the 1.1.x filelist.
>>
>> I hope you understand how ssh-agent works.
>>
>> --
>> USB is for mice, FireWire is for men!
>>
>> sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG
>
>
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