> Mind you, I highly discourage theh HTTP or HTTPS access to Subversion > due to the plain-text password storage issues for UNIX/Linux/CygWin > clients.
IIRC 1.6 client can be configured to use gnome keyring or kde4 kwallet for Linux (http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html#auth-related-improvements). Never tried that though.