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Re: Feature Request: clients shouldn't store auth-creds

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-01-04 00:32:30 CET

On Jan 3, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Tobias Ringström wrote:

> Subversion is pretty unique in that it stores passwords by default.

Doesn't CVS do this?

> On top of that, it also stores them in plain text,

Doesn't CVS do this?

I'm not saying that CVS doing something means it's a Good Thing. :-)

I'm guessing, though, that not many people are surprised by this
particular behavior, because CVS does it. Notice that this is the
first time we've heard complaints about "caching by default".

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