Alexander Falb created SVN-4861:
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Summary: Automation of SVN without "plaintest password store" is
clunky
Key: SVN-4861
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4861
Project: Subversion
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.12.0
Reporter: Alexander Falb
[Since 1.12.0 the plaintext-password-store is disable on Linux on compile
time|https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.12#client-server-improvements].
This makes it very hard to automate Subversion on Linux in a "headless"
environment like a docker container.
In my particular situation on some conditions a dockerized script needs to
commit a few files to SVN. My current approach is to start a gpg-agent (or
reconnect to it if its already running), preload the password in gpg-agent
(because gpg-agent might have expired it) and finally do the SVN commit. I
however first need to calculate the md5 hash of the SVN auth realm, to identify
the gpg-agent key-handle.
Overall a lot of steps that would not be necessary if SVN would save the
passwords in it's plaintext store. In the end I'm now keeping a plaintext store
to preload gpg-agent, I have a process running in my container that could be
omitted and the script is a lot clunkier than needed.
Please advice if my approach is the way to go or if I'm doing something
terribly wrong.
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