No – our server asks always for a password, but the client does not ask to 
store it. I had to enter the password for the svn log everytime.
Only if I use a svn co/up the server also asks, but in that case the client 
asks to store it.

Gunther

Von: Bert Huijben [mailto:b...@qqmail.nl]
Gesendet: Freitag, 21. November 2014 22:56
An: Schulz, Gunther; users@subversion.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Different behaviour of storing plaintext passwords under Unix - 
svn log differes from svn co/up

Does your server support anonymous read only connections?

If it allows those, it is completely expected that it doesn't use a password 
for authorizing things like log… and therefore never updates/stores passwords 
in that case.

Bert

From: Schulz, Gunther<mailto:gunther.sch...@zeiss.com>
Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎November‎ ‎21‎, ‎2014 ‎4‎:‎05‎ ‎PM
To: users@subversion.apache.org<mailto:users@subversion.apache.org>

Hello,

I detected an unexpected behaviour of the subversion client (Debian 7.7, svn 
version 1.6.12 (r955767)):

The configuration settings of store-plaintext-passwords (yes/ask/no) are only 
validated if I execute svn commands like checkout or update, but not for a 
simple ‘svn log’ command:

-       the password file in auth/svn.simple were not generated

-       strangely I was asked if I want to store the hostkey certificate which 
worked seemlessly

-       when using a ‘svn update’ or ‘svn checkout’ the expected behaviour was 
seen (prompt for saving or save automatically)

Usually this is not detected as one of the first calls are update or checkout 
commands, but I used here some scripting using ‘svn log’ and was wondering why 
my password was never updated, no matter where I changed the 
save-plaintext-passwords settings (/etc/subversion/servers or 
~/.subversion/servers, global section or specific local server sections).

I assume this is a bug or at least a strange feature. Normally I would expect 
that the same authentication procedure is used for all the remote svn commands 
which require authentication against the server.

Please let me know if you need some traces or configuration settings…

BTW: Subversion server was running on a Windows server machine, access via 
WebDAV / https

Best regards,

Gunther

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