Re: Passswords not encrypted

Giulio Troccoli wrote:

>I have just found out something that I'm not sure it's right.
>
>I have been using Subversion for a while now, with Apache and its
>password system, i.e. htpasswd. The passwords in the Apache files are
>encrypted and that's fine of course.
>
>In the .subversion/auth/svn.simple subdirectory of a user's home
>directory (on AIX) there is one file per repository, and the passwords
>in these files are not encrypted.
>
>Could someone tell me why it is so? Is it possible to encrypt those too?
>If not, is there a way to not have non-encrypted passwords anywhere?
>
>

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#plaintext-passwords

HTH

Michael

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