[jira] [Created] (SVN-4861) Automation of SVN without "plaintest password store" is clunky

Alexander Falb created SVN-4861:
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             Summary: Automation of SVN without "plaintest password store" is clunky
                 Key: SVN-4861
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4861
             Project: Subversion
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 1.12.0
            Reporter: Alexander Falb


[Since 1.12.0 the plaintext-password-store is disable on Linux on compile time|https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.12#client-server-improvements]. This makes it very hard to automate Subversion on Linux in a "headless" environment like a docker container.

In my particular situation on some conditions a dockerized script needs to commit a few files to SVN. My current approach is to start a gpg-agent (or reconnect to it if its already running), preload the password in gpg-agent (because gpg-agent might have expired it) and finally do the SVN commit. I however first need to calculate the md5 hash of the SVN auth realm, to identify the gpg-agent key-handle.

Overall a lot of steps that would not be necessary if SVN would save the passwords in it's plaintext store. In the end I'm now keeping a plaintext store to preload gpg-agent, I have a process running in my container that could be omitted and the script is a lot clunkier than needed.

 

Please advice if my approach is the way to go or if I'm doing something terribly wrong.



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