Re: storing user passwords in non-cleartext form in password-db file

W J wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way to store the passwords configured in
> the password file (pointed to by password-db) in
> non-cleartext form?
> I realize that obscurity is not security, but in my
> case, our development is based on trust, so I am not
> worried about security at all. We need some way of
> authenticating users (to know who made each change to
> the sources), and I want to avoid seeing the other
> users' password in plaintext.

This is not currently possible with plain svn:// access.

Yes, it probably ought to be.

For now, the available workarounds are:

  Use svn+ssh://
  Use http[s]://

Max.

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Received on Mon Oct 25 14:41:08 2004