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

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