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Bug 336927

Summary:	enable storing SVN passwords encrypted
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Nicolas Bros <nicolas.bros>
Component:	Subversion	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Nicolas Bros

2011-02-11 07:27:53 EST

I got the following warning message trying to do a "svn move" on build.eclipse.org:

ATTENTION!  Your password for authentication realm:

   <https://dev.eclipse.org:443> Eclipse Account

can only be stored to disk unencrypted!  You are advised to configure
your system so that Subversion can store passwords encrypted, if
possible.  See the documentation for details.

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-02-11 09:02:57 EST

Nicolas,

This is the second problem you've encountered while trying to do an SVN move from build, using https.  May I ask why you are not simply using the local filesystem via /svnroot?  I don't see why file:// URLs wouldn't work, and using your own shell account, you won't even need to authenticate to SVN.  The resulting operation would also likely be faster.

Another option: you could use svn+ssh using public key authentication, which is likely even safer than storing password in whatever encrypted format SVN proposes.

Comment 2 Nicolas Bros

2011-02-11 09:26:19 EST

You are right. I was lazy and copy-pasted the https URLs, but I don't need to commit from build.eclipse.org using https.