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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> on 2019/12/15 13:46:33 UTC

How do I enable storing of plaintext passwords?

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?

Barry


Re: How do I enable storing of plaintext passwords?

Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>.
On 15.12.2019 22:49, Barry wrote:
>
>> On 15 Dec 2019, at 15:29, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.

Yes, existing password records are still used, but new ones will not be
written by 1.12 and newer versions.

-- Brane


Re: How do I enable storing of plaintext passwords?

Posted by Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org>.

> On 15 Dec 2019, at 15:29, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 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



> 
> -- Brane
> 


Re: How do I enable storing of plaintext passwords?

Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>.
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?


https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.12.html#client-server-improvements


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

-- Brane