Re: svnserve and passwords

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool. Check out
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.netmodel.html#svn.serverconfig.netmodel.credcache
> to learn more about the credential caching. Unfortunately, while that
> page mentions support for Gnome and KDE wallets, it fails to mention
> the dependencies on active X sessions for those to work well, and the
> difficulties of using them in a plain text environment, nor does it
> properly address the ongoing practices of storing passwords in clear
> text, by default. Enabling Gnome or KDE wallets requires additional,
> client managed steps that are therefore difficult to enforce sitewide.

GNOME keyring works easily in a plain text environment and does not
need X. I agree it is difficult to enforce it site wide.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
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