[tei-council] Fwd: password challenge from svn

[Martin Holmes]

I use the command line too and I noticed the same behaviour. I thought 
about it for a bit and decided I'd rather not be storing my password 
locally. I read the SVN book section about this:

<http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch06s02.html>

and this bit:

"The security-paranoid people may be thinking to themselves, “Caching 
passwords on disk? That's terrible! You should never do that!” But 
please remain calm. First, the auth/ caching area is 
permission-protected so that only the user (owner) can read data from 
it, not the world at large. If that's still not safe enough for you, you 
can disable credential caching. To disable caching for a single command, 
pass the --no-auth-cache option..."

convinced me that I'm security-paranoid, because I don't really like the 
idea that anyone that hacks a user account on one of my computers can 
then get access to my SF account too. So I'm typing it in every time.

Cheers,
Martin

On 13-04-07 10:42 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
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> Before I set up my nice new ubuntu desktop last month, I was happily
> using the command line subversion client routinely to check stuff in and
> out. I still am, but nowadays it insists on asking me for my sf password
> every time, which it didnt do before and which other svn repos I use
> don't either. On the plus side this means I am less likely to forget my
> sf password, but it still seems annoying. Is this something I've
> forgotten I need to tweak in my connexion to the repo? Or am I the last
> person in the world still using the command line?
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