> On 15 Dec 2019, at 15:29, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> On 15.12.2019 14:46, Barry Scott wrote:
>> I'm doing some testing and want to test with plaintext passwords.
>>
>> It seems that storing plaintext passwords can be compiled out. Is that why I
>> cannot configure it back on?
>
>
> https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.12.html#client-server-improvements
Aha, that explains why it works on some systems with older svn. Been working on
Centos 7 with svn 1.7 for some tests.
> If you want to use plaintext passwords on disk, you'll have to build
> Subversion from source and explicitly enable that feature.
What had me confused for a while is that if the svn.simple/123... file was
written by an earlier svn then 1.12 with a plaintext password that password is
used with the newer svn versions.
Barry
>
> -- Brane
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