On 07/04/14 04:47, Gabriela Gibson wrote:

This is a summary of Ben's reply:

Ben Reser wrote on Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 12:54:58 -0700:
 > 1) Remove the option.
 > 2) Redact the password in the argv after starting up and finding the
 > bits to redact.

3) Allow the password to be supplied over stdin using the special value "-".

Nobody will see the password. The only leak is that a password has been supplied using stdin. An attacker will have to convince the calling application to run something different than svn which logs the password to a file.

This can ofcourse be combined with 2).

- Martin

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