Hi Stefan. Thanks for your tip. I recompiled my client using the "dependency package" [1]. This way, I got the right APR installation, and my client no longer echoes the password when I type it.
Issue resolved. - Patrick 1. http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/INSTALL -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 3:13 PM To: Patrick Oor Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: svn 1.6 client echoes password 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
