Hi, I just noticed that Subversion 1.6 (a release candidate is out there) will have some new features related to handling of credentials used authentication. These are: * Prompting before storing passwords in plaintext form Subversion prompts before storing passwords in plaintext form. * Support for storing passwords in KWallet and GNOME Keyring (Unix-like systems) Passwords can be stored in KWallet (KDE 4) and GNOME Keyring. * Support for storing SSL client certificate passphrases SSL client certificate passphrases can be stored in KWallet, GNOME Keyring, Mac OS Keychain, a Windows CryptoAPI encrypted form or in plaintext form. Some discussion that I found when I searched via Google was this: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-04/0832.shtml http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-04/0803.shtml http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-04/0815.shtml So no really new findings, but the rationale about not storing passwords by default I found quite interesting: ``But anyone saving their passwords on disk even though the admin told them not to will not be able to blame Subversion for doing so behind their backs. They will have to take responsibility themselves. They can't point at us saying "they saved my password, I didn't do it".'' This is something that the OBS could do with relatively little effort. Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development