On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Nick <nospam_at_codesniffer.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:49 -0500, Mark Phippard wrote:
>> > Apologies in advance if this is covered somewhere, but can someone
>> > explain (or point me to some references on) why using SVN w/ Apache
>> > (HTTPS) is insecure? I've seen some references to plain text
>> password
>> > storage, but I don't see my password on my server. The passwords in
>> my
>> > svnusers files look like hashes, which makes sense because I use the
>> > "-m" option to htpasswd2 when creating them. What am I missing?
>>
>> Yes, it is secure. Nico's issue is that the SVN client will allow the
>> user to cache their password in plaintext locally in their home
>> folder. This is only true for *nix clients though. Windows and OSX
>> clients store the password securely.
>
> I see, thanks. So by "SVN client", are you referring to the command
> line client that's provided by SVN?
> May I ask why the *nix client stores the credentials in plain text?
> Again, I'm open to references which explain it if this has already been
> covered.
This is a very large and longstanding issue for me and others, and has
led to clients of mine rejecting Subversion outright. And it looks
like a legacy of Subversion's re-implementation of CVS, described as
"CVS done right". CVS security was even worse.
Received on 2011-01-05 03:25:49 CET