Re: Subversion not caching password

[David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>]

On 7/7/2009 3:04 PM, Derek Greer wrote:
> Using the Cygwin version of subversion, I have been unable to
> configure it to store my encrypted password in
> ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/.
>
> Here are the steps I am taking (the first step to start with a clean config):
>
> - rm -rf ~/.subversion; svn --version
> - edit the ~/.subversion/servers file to include "store-passwords =
> yes" and "store-plaintext-passwords = no" under the [global] section.\

I guess the Cygwin build of subversion can only cache plaintext 
passwords, and you've just turned that off, so it won't cache passwords. 
I will look into supporting the wincrypt API in the Cygwin build, but I 
wouldn't hold your breath if I were you. It might also be possible to 
turn on the GNOME keyring or KWallet support, although again I'm not sure.

--
David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth@acm.org

Volunteer Cygwin subversion maintainer.


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