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Re: svn commit: r13888 - in trunk: doc subversion/clients/cmdline subversion/include subversion/libsvn_client

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2005-04-04 11:44:36 CEST

Branko Čibej wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> brane@tigris.org wrote:
>>
>>> Author: brane
>>> Date: Mon Apr 4 03:14:12 2005
>>> New Revision: 13888
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>> trunk/doc/doxygen.conf
>>> trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline/main.c
>>> trunk/subversion/include/svn_client.h
>>> trunk/subversion/libsvn_client/simple_providers.c
>>> Log:
>>> Add a new simple auth provider for Windows (Win2k and later) that
>>> encrypts passwords before storing them to disk, and make it the
>>> default.
>>
>>
>> Access to certain Windows secured data is lost if the users account
>> password is administratively reset. Does this apply here?
>
> Indeed it does.
>
>> If it does, it needs to be documented quite prominently!
>
> I don't see how losing data from a cache would be a problem. If the
> user's crypt key gets reset, they'll simply be prompted for the password
> next time it's needed.

Hmm. I suppose it is only a cache. But it should still be documented - even
if not as prominently as I proposed before.

Max.

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