Re: Client side password safety (was: storing user passwords in non-cleartext form in password-db file)

John Rousseau wrote:
> Are there plans for implementing a secure client side storage mechanism?
> Something along the lines of ssh-agent would be ideal.
>
> We would love to back our subversion apache instance with Novell's
> corporate LDAP directory for authentication, but the presence of cleartext
> passwords on the client prevents us from doing this.
>
> In Max's previous post he states that using http[s]:// helps solve this
> problem, but unless we use SSL/TLS with client certificates, I don't see
> how.

We were talking about *server* side password safety, not client.

Max.

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Received on Mon Oct 25 20:19:40 2004