Re: [Zope-dev] Re: http access to svn repos?

On 3/8/06, Jim Fulton <jim@zope.com> wrote:

OK, for those not familiar with svn/HTTP authentication, as I understand it you have to authenticate for each session and your credentials are cached in clear text in your home directory. The storage of clear-text credentials is obviously lame, as is the necessity to provide then for each svn session.

Client certificates are the SSL equivalent of ssh keys and can, like keys, be protected by a passphrase. Without some form of passphrase-caching agent, you'd have to re-enter your passphrase every time too though, or (*shudder*) put your passphrase into the .subversion/servers config file, and you are back to square one. -- Martijn Pieters