On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 3:44 PM Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 6:30 AM Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > > The answer might be that 'svn authz add' should simply not contact the > > server to check credentials. Which means we cannot check upfront whether > > the user running 'svn auth add' knows valid credentials. > > Yeah that seems reasonable. Basically an "official" version of what > the scripts are doing. > > All that said, I still favor restoring the previous behavior where > this is enabled by default and a packager can compile it out if they > so choose.
+1, I would prefer that as well (was quite happy with the previous behavior :-)). If that's not an option (because of $security-reasons / loud voices), a workaround with some 'svn auth' extension would definitely help mitigate the break in usability / backwards compatibility that now occurred. -- Johan
