On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 04:08:34PM -0400, Nathan Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 6:30 AM Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote:
> > One consequence is that when Alice mistypes the --username option, or
> > mistypes the username or password at the prompt, invalid credentials will
> > be cached. Which should make any regular SVN operation fail and ask for
> > credentials again. I don't think this would be a problem, apart from the
> > possibility that invalid plaintext credentials would not be overwritten
> > by SVN binaries compiled without support for writing plaintext passwords
> > during regular operation.
>
> That could be mitigated by providing a "svn auth remove" that deletes
> a cached credential.
Yes, removing the credential would also unblock the situation, as would
updating the credential.
Thankfully, svn auth --remove already exists :)
auth: Manage cached authentication credentials.
usage: 1. svn auth [PATTERN ...]
2. svn auth --remove PATTERN [PATTERN ...]
