Re: How do I enable storing of plaintext passwords?

> On 15 Dec 2019, at 15:29, Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> wrote:
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> On 15.12.2019 14:46, Barry Scott wrote:
>> I'm doing some testing and want to test with plaintext passwords.
>>
>> It seems that storing plaintext passwords can be compiled out. Is that why I cannot configure it back on?
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> https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.12.html#client-server-improvements

Aha, that explains why it works on some systems with older svn. Been working on Centos 7 with svn 1.7 for some tests.

> If you want to use plaintext passwords on disk, you'll have to build
> Subversion from source and explicitly enable that feature.

What had me confused for a while is that if the svn.simple/123... file was written by an earlier svn then 1.12 with a plaintext password that password is used with the newer svn versions.

Barry

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> -- Brane
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Received on 2019-12-15 22:49:56 CET