Branko Čibej wrote on Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 22:24:43 +0200:
> On 17.04.2013 21:01, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Branko Čibej wrote on Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 07:14:53 +0200:
> >> The --config-dir option is IMO problematic for this since you'd have to
> >> use the SVN command-line to initialize the credentials store -- the
> >> format is such that I'd not recommend editing the auth store manually.
> >>
> > Manually? Of course not. But I could see us whipping up a tools/
> > script that takes a URL, username, and password[1], and creates a foo/
> > dir with foo/auth/svn.simple/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e, or prints
> > the string "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e" and the
> > would-be-file-contents to stdout, etc.
>
> Did you have something like this in mind?
>
> $ svnauth init --config-dir=~/.subversion-alternate
> $ svnauth add --config-dir=~/.subversion-alternate
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
> Username: ....
> Password: ****
>
I'd be happy with a tool that takes a dirname and URL on argv and
a username\0password\0 on stdin and creates
${dirname}/auth/svn.ssl.simple/$(md5 $(realm-of URL)) with the right
contents.
But yeah, what you wrote works, too.
>
> I have a suspicion that the idea could grow into a full-blown
> credentials management tool ...
>
Right, with the recent "delete credentials" ability.
Nice GSOC/OPW idea?
> -- Brane
>
> --
> Branko Čibej
> Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
>
