On 10/11/07, Mark Phippard <markphip@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@red-bean.com> wrote:
> > My preference is that after successful authentication, the default
> > behavior is to *ask* the user whether to cache the password on disk.
> > (And the prompt should make it clear whether the cache will be
> > encrypted or not.) This is what web browsers do, and that's a UI
> > that everyone is familiar and comfortable with.
> >
> > (It sort of matches the way we prompt about accepting new SSL
> > certificates: never, for this session only, or permanently.)
>
> AFAIK, Subversion already has this functionality. I think the CLI
> just does not use it. When a user is using Subclipse, as an example,
> we receive a callback from JavaHL that asks for username/password AND
> whether the user wants to cache the password. The problem (I think)
> is if you set store-passwords=no, then the user will no longer get
> that option to store the password. I think that would be an
> unacceptable regression.
Well, then it sounds like we simply need to make the CLI do an extra
"do you want to store the password?" prompt when store-passwords=yes.
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Received on Thu Oct 11 16:55:21 2007