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Re: Can passwd file hold password in encrypted format ?

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-05-23 13:45:49 CEST

On 5/23/07, chetan <chetan@savvion.com> wrote:
> Thanks for information. Actually we are having both svnserver and apache
> server,
> but for apache password is in encrypted format and for svnserve it is
> not. So to
> smilar apparoach we wanted to have password in encrypted format in
> svnserver also.

Why are you subjecting yourself to the extra overhead with
questionable benefit of running 2 different servers? Is this for the
same repository, or are you serving different repositories with
different servers?

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> > On May 23, 2007, at 04:56, chetanchatwani wrote:
> >
> >> Can passwd file located under conf folder of repository, hold
> >> password in
> >> encrypted format ?
> >
> >
> > No, it must be stored in plain text.
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/
> > svn.serverconfig.choosing.html#svn.serverconfig.choosing.svnserve
> >
> >> The svnserve Server
> >> Why you might want to avoid it:
> >> Password is stored in the clear on the server.
> >
>
>
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