Re: passwords in subversion

"Martin A. Brooks" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.eyebrowse.user,gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel
Message-ID <41BB8C04.9000308__1239.34763619236$1102827718$gmane$org@hinterlands.org>
Jim Correia wrote:

> I'm not going to do anything malicious with my users' passwords, and 
> they know that. But people being what they are, tend to reuse 
> passwords and I'd rather avoid even having to see their passwords if I 
> could.


How about adding support for SASL?  It's simple enough and means svn 
users don't need to have local accounts on the svn server itself. SASL 
supports several encryption and obfuscation schemes.

Start reading here: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/

Regards

Mart.
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