On 10/9/10 8:39 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Look, Subversion inherited its practice of storing password in cleartext from its ancestor, CVS. It's been an uphill battle ever since to wallpaper over the practice: there are enough layers of wallpaper, finally, that it's almost thick enough to be a wall. It's fixed for TortoieSVN, and svn+ssh using SSH keys can work well.
If you are going to rant, you should also point out that ssh keys without a passphrase and agent to manage it are not really any different than a file-stored password. If you can copy the private side of the identity key, you can get access.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
