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Re: Can passwd file hold password in encrypted format ?

From: chetan <chetan_at_savvion.com>
Date: 2007-05-23 13:58:42 CEST

Thanks for your reply.Agreed it is overhead, but as of now since we are
migrating from
CVS to SVN and we wanted to check what would be better .

Regards,
Chetan

Andy Levy wrote:

> 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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