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Re: Psaswords

From: Roland Schwingel <roland.schwingel_at_onevision.de>
Date: 2005-10-14 12:49:50 CEST

Hi...

Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos <papadopo@shfj.cea.fr> wrote on 14.10.2005
11:50:21:
> > Any options to make the password-storage on the client more secure? I
> > would like to see this files not world-readable. Is this possible by
> > default?
>
> This is covered by the FAQ:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#plaintext-passwords
>
> First of all, notice that the directory which contains the
> cached passwords (usually ~/.subversion/auth/ on Unix systems)
> has permissions of 700, meaning only you can read them. Trust
> your OS to protect data on disk.
>
> Can you confirm the passwords are actually world readable in youre case?
I can confirm this in my case... I have a linux machine serving the
users homeaccounts
with samba to windows clients running cygwin with svn compiled for cygwin.

In my case this folder is *always* generated world readable, because a
chmod on cygwin
is not completly transparent over samba to the linux fs. :-(

I would also like to see the passwords scrambled by default. At present
I have a cronjob
running hourly to protect the .subversion folders of each user.

Roland

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