Nathan Hartman wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 14:36:58 -0500: > In a recent discussion on our dev mailing list, there is an example > shell script (for zsh) that saves a password file. See [2] and note > that there were a few corrections to the script so be sure to use the > latest version in that mail list thread. > > [1] > https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.12.html#client-server-improvements > > [2] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0eef40236aeddd1db18bc7882454dd3b18bcd721d8fd8c9e21aca52a%40%3Cdev.subversion.apache.org%3E > > I hope the above is helpful; feel free to ask as many questions as you > need to, or propose improvements to the above-mentioned script or > Subversion itself. We have gotten quite a few questions about this and
I'm starting to wonder if that script deserves a home more permanent than the end of a random dev@ thread whose subject line contains "WTF" and "?!"; e.g., perhaps that script should be linked from the FAQ or the release notes. Cheers, Daniel > it has been frustrating for anyone who uses svn as part of cron jobs > in non-X environments, where the available encrypted password stores, > Kwallet and Gnome-keyring, aren't much help, and GPG-Agent doesn't > persist the passwords indefinitely. We would be really grateful if > someone could propose a solution that works well in these scenarios > while alleviating people's concerns about storing passwords on disk in > plaintext. > > Cheers, > Nathan
