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

From: Peter N. Lundblad <peter_at_famlundblad.se>
Date: 2005-01-05 21:19:17 CET

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Tobias Ringström wrote:

> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>
> But the thread has drifted far away from it's origin. The issue is
> whether Subversion should cache passwords by default or not. I still
> feel that it should not for the reasons I stated earlier in this thread,
> but I'm also beginning to realize, much to my surprise, that I'm pretty
> alone with that opinion.
>
No, you're not alone. I don't like programs that silently spread my
passwords in different files on my hard drive without me noticing. There
are ways to avoid this, but if I am just a little bit ignorant... I don't
see why changing a default would be bad. Scripts can hardly rely on this
config option set to a specific value, so it can't break compability. I am
actually +1 on changing the default. This also sends a signal that we are
taking security seriously.

//Peter

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