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I installed SVN on a Ubuntu machine and I can't get my head around something.
Whenever I checkout something from the terminal I get this error about saving a non-encrypted password:
----------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION! Your password for authentication realm: <[...]> Subversion Repository can only be stored to disk unencrypted! You are advised to configure your system so that Subversion can store passwords encrypted, if possible. See the documentation for details. You can avoid future appearances of this warning by setting the value of the 'store-plaintext-passwords' option to either 'yes' or 'no' in '/home/[...]/.subversion/servers'. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I goggled it a bit but I couldn't find anything useful. I found one topic where it said this was a client issue, not a server one, but I'm still not convinced.
It says "configure your system"; what exactly does it mean by that? The server or the client? If I'm the server, is there anything I can do about it? besides hiding the warning (like it says)...
Thanks!
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On Windows, the Subversion client stores passwords in the %APPDATA%/Subversion/auth/ directory.
The authentication credentials can usually be found in: Mac OS X / Linux : ~/. subversion/auth/svn. simple.
To disable password caching entirely for any single Subversion command-line operation, pass the --no-auth-cache option to that command line. To permanently disable caching entirely, add the line store-passwords = no to your local machine's Subversion configuration file.
The first thing that you need to do is to find the auth folder in the subversion directory that can be found tipically in the %appdata%\Subversion\auth e.g C:\Users\<your-username>\AppData\Roaming\Subversion\auth . Finally, select the auth folder and delete it.
It is a client issue. It warns you that the credentials used for the different servers are being stored in plain text. You can hide that warning or use an encrypted storage to cache the passwords.
See: http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/2009/07/subversion-16-security-improvements
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