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RE: SVN Password stored in Plaintext!!!!

From: Robert Simmons <kraythe_at_arcor.de>
Date: 2004-09-24 15:18:10 CEST

Ahh... I understand.

The crux of the issue is that although there is a solution possible, the SVN
dev team simply doesn't want to do it?

-- Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian W. Fitzpatrick [mailto:fitz@red-bean.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 15:13
> To: Robert Simmons
> Cc: 'Michael Brouwer'; dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: SVN Password stored in Plaintext!!!!
>
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 22:31, Robert Simmons wrote:
> > Across a proxy, through a firewall and into a paranoid company?
> >
> > Nay.
> >
> > One of the charms of SVN is the apache and HTTPS access.
>
> And one of the compromises of using HTTPS and the auth cache is that
> your password is stored in cleartext.
>
> -Fitz

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