On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:58 PM, David Brodbeck <brodbd_at_uw.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
>> As of 1.6, Subversion asks the user before saving passwords in
>> plaintext. 1.6 also added support for using GNOME Keyring and KDE Wallet
>> as password stores.
>
> Yup. There are, as noted, unfortunately a lot of hassles involved
> with those tools in a non-GUI environment; what we really need is a
> lightweight, secure, standard keyring service. But getting Linux
> distros to standardize on *anything* is like herding cats, so I'm not
> holding my breath. ;) The assumption seems to be that these are
> things that only desktop users really want, so bundling them as part
> of the GUI is sufficient. I don't blame Subversion for that, though.
GNOME keyring can work well in a non-GUI environment. I use it in an
environment where I just SSH into a remote Linux server without any X
environment. I just start gnome-keyring-daemon when I login. Not
sure if KWallet has an equivalent.
This even works with the ancient gnome-keyring libraries included in
RHEL 4. I've also used it on Solaris.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2010-10-15 22:19:17 CEST