Updating Subversion servers configuration file is not working

Question

I'm trying to update my Subversion configuration so that it won't store passwords in plaintext. I understand that you need to update the configuration in the ~/.subversion/servers file to prevent this by adding a line: "store-plaintext-passwords = no".

I've done this, but my Subversion client continues to show me the standard warning:

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ATTENTION! Your password for authentication realm:

RainStorm 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’.
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I've tried logging out and logging back in again from the terminal, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. I assume that with SVN it's just a CLI tool and not a daemon that I have to restart, but I'm not positive.

What might be going on?

Answer 1

To disable the warning, edit your ~/.subversion/servers file.
Add/modify the following section to it :

[global]
store-plaintext-passwords=no