On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 02:25:00PM +0100, Patrick Oor wrote: > When I switched my SVN client on Red Hat Linux 4 from SVN 1.5.4 to > 1.6.3 I found out that the newer SVN client echoes my password to the > screen when I type it. I looked for a fix on the internet (including > this project) but have not found anything yet. Who can help? Why is > SVN echoing the password and how can I switch it off again?
Subversion relies on APR to read passwords without echoing. So this must be a problem with APR, not Subversion. Check your APR installation. If the APR compilation process does not detect a getpass(), getpassphrase(), or getpass_r() routine, or the termios.h header file, then APR stupidly falls back to reading the password with a simple fgets() call. This might explain your situation. The above is valid for APR-1.3.x. I haven't checked other versions. Stefan
