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Posted to commits@subversion.apache.org by st...@apache.org on 2011/07/26 14:31:33 UTC

svn propchange: r1150728 - svn:log

Author: stsp
Revision: 1150728
Modified property: svn:log

Modified: svn:log at Tue Jul 26 12:31:33 2011
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--- svn:log (original)
+++ svn:log Tue Jul 26 12:31:33 2011
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Change the password prompt to match the 
 command line client and allow it to be internationalised.
 
 Also make the pinentry program ask for the password twice.
-It is not easy for users to get rid of an invalid password once it is
-in the agent's cache (the easiest way is probably to kill the agent).
-Asking for the password twice makes such mistakes less likely.
+Users must send SIGHUP to the agent to get rid of an invalid password once
+it is in the agent's cache, which also invalidates any other chached
+passphrases. Asking for the password twice makes such mistakes less likely.
 
 * subversion/libsvn_auth_gpg_agent/gpg_agent.c
   (escape_blanks): New helper functions to escape blanks in GPG-Agent