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Re: How to store new password so no need to enter every time?

From: frame <xsli2_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 06:48:10 -0700 (PDT)

On Thursday, May 3, 2012 3:47:13 PM UTC-4, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 12:41:38PM -0700, frame wrote:
> > I saw the password is saved in the file within
> .subversion/auth/svn.simple
> > directory. Is that correct? How can I have it saved in encrypted format?
> Is
> > this can be achieved by my personal or the system admin group?
>
> You would need to configure gnome-keyring or kwallet (see the
> 'password-stores' option in the 'config' file). I don't know
> whether those programs are available for your linux distro.
> They are third-party password encryption tools that Subversion
> can optionally make use of.
>
> Our system admin is against saving password in plain text format. So, I
have to pursue encryption format way. In my .subversion/config:
### Section for configuring external helper applications.
password-stores =
 
So 'password-stores' option is empty. We use Red Hat Linux 5.8. Can you
help more? Thank you.
Received on 2012-05-04 15:48:45 CEST

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