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Re: Fairly urgent password problem

From: Ate Douma <ate_at_douma.nu>
Date: 2004-08-10 20:08:40 CEST

Mark Phippard wrote:
> It should only be cached in your Eclipse workspace. Doesn't each
> developer have their own workspace?
No they haven't. To give them a (protected) workspace would require it to be
stored in their profile but the strict policy is that they may only store 25Mb
in it. The workspace folder is usually at least 200Mb big so that really isn't
an option for us.

>
> Mark
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> Ate Douma <ate@douma.nu> wrote on 08/10/2004 01:58:30 PM:
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>>We had a related problem with the Location dialog. If you specify a
>>username/password in the dialog those are *also* cached by Eclipse it
>
> seems.
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>>Because our machines can be used by multiple developers this is a big
>
> problem
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>>because they could end up using other persons connection configurations.
>>So now we have the policy that before first time access to a Repository
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> Location
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>> (using Subclipse) a developer first has to authenticate using the svn
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>>commandline client. Then the authentication information is stored within
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> his/her
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>>profile (in clear text by the way) and when using Subclipse no
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> username/password
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>>specification is allowed.
>>
>>If it would be possible to have Subclipse *not* store the
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> username/password
>
>>information within some Eclipse cache that would be great and simplify
>
> our
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>>procedures big.
>>And then be able to modify it through Subclipse would really remove the
>
> need to
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>>use the svn command line client completely.
>>
>>
>>
>>Mark Phippard wrote:
>>
>>>That is what I thought, but that didn't do it. I had to disconnect
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> all of
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>>>my projects (50 across 5 workspaces), discard my location, recreate it
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>
>>>with the new username and password, then do Team -> Share again.
>>>
>>>Couldn't there be a UI to edit the username/password stored in the SVN
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>
>>>Repository perspective?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>McClain Looney <mlooney@gmail.com> wrote on 08/09/2004 03:05:08 PM:
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>>>
>>>
>>>>re-authenticate using the commandline svn client. that will freshen
>>>>your auth cache.
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:32:10 -0400, Mark Phippard <markp@softlanding.
>>>>com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I am using Subclipse with Eclipse 2.1 and hitting an http repository.
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>>>We
>>>
>>>
>>>>>had to change all of our passwords so now my http password is
>>>
>>>different.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>The first time I used the svn command line it just reprompted and
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>>>cached
>>>
>>>
>>>>>my credentials, but it appears that Subclipse only uses the info you
>>>>>provided when you create the repository connection and there is no UI
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>>>to
>>>
>>>
>>>>>edit that information.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>McClain Looney
>>>>m@loonsoft.com
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