On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:43:55PM +0100, Anselm Arndt wrote: > Oh sorry, > it is a svnserve server setup. > I am not a svn expert. > I am able to manage the users (with their rights) and to create new > repositories. > But now I was asked to store the passwords not in clear text in the passwd.
svnserve uses CRAM-MD5 authentication, which requires both parties to know the plaintext. The password is a shared secret. If you want something better, you can either try setting up svnserve with Cyrus-SASL, or switch to Apache HTTPD and use, for instance, digest authentication which saves hashes of passwords to disk. See here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svnserve.sasl http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.serverconfig.httpd.html#svn.serverconfig.httpd.authn.digest
