Den lör 15 aug. 2020 07:31Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> skrev:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:47:59 +0200, Daniel Sahlberg > <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Den fre 14 aug. 2020 kl 13:35 skrev Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com>: > > > >> This is strange to me since I have not seen it before. > >> I have svn installed on a newly set up RPi3 running Pi-OS (previously > >> named Raspbian) Linux. > >> I installed svn via apt. > >> > >> Any ideas? > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Bo Berglund > >> Developer in Sweden > >> > > > >You will most probably find your answer in this mailing list thread > >at @Dev: lo > > > >TLDR: Saving passwords in plaintext is (from some version) a non-default > >compile time option. You may try to convince the Pi-OS maintainers to > >enable this option again. > > I don't know how that works, do the maintainers of distros really > recompile all of the content and modify the code in so doing? > Definitely recompiling and changing compile time options. Sometimes also changing code but mostly if the distro require some specific provisions. >You might be able to get this to work using a keyring, but I don't have any > >experience with it (I'm mostly a Windows guy). > > > >I've been planning to check why the script provided by Daniel Shahaf > >doesn't work, because I would also like to be able to save passwords from > >time to time. > > > > Is this a client modification and if so from which version? > Compile time defaults changed in 1.12. Is it possible to install a specific (older) svn client version in a > Linux computer in order to have this fixed? If so how? > Depends on your distro, but probably better to recompile the current client and set the proper compile time option. See the message from Stefan Sperling detailing how OpenBSD handled tjis I am using apt in my scripts to install for example subversion... > > And I am not really talking about cahching the password in > *plaintext*! > It could as well be encrypted, but what it should not do is launch a > GUI dialog to enter the password when the command is issued in a > terminal window! > A keyring should be able to prompt for the password from the terminal, but I have never used them. Subversion support a few different options. I managed to improve Daniel Shahaf's tool to save the password, see https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2020-08/0021.shtml Svn is a command line tool and therefore a password request should be > shown inside the terminal that is running the svn operation and not > pop up something that is incvisible to the user!!!!! > > Whatever GUI wrappers like Tortoise do is irrelevant since in such > usage the entire user interaction is via the GUI. > In the terminal case NOT... > > > -- > Bo Berglund > Developer in Sweden > >
