Re: Security flaw: subversion stores passwords by default

On 2008-03-19 23:07:48 -0700, Hari Kodungallur wrote:
> Currently svn provides both choices - it will store the password for
> you or you can choose to not store as well. But we could look at his
> argument as to keep the same two choices, but just make the default
> to not store the password. The config parameter can be changed by
> users if they wish to (to make store-passwords to 'yes' to make it
> store the password).

IMHO, the default should be to ask the user, as he may want to store
*some* passwords only (i.e. the least sensitive ones).

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