On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 7:35 AM Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:50 PM Karl Fogel <kfo...@red-bean.com> wrote:
> >
> Putting the hat on of someone that wants to turn off plaintext passwords
> ...
>
> 1) I think there should be an easy way to know if the support exists
> or not. I am thinking "svn --version" maybe prints out if plaintext is
> available? So an admin could run this command and would look to
> confirm they do NOT see that in the output? Maybe this already exists?



Yes, svn --version does print this information. See near the end:

[[[
$ svn --version
svn, version 1.15.0-dev (under development)
   compiled Apr 12 2021, 15:50:36 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Copyright (C) 2021 The Apache Software Foundation.
This software consists of contributions made by many people;
see the NOTICE file for more information.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/

WARNING: Plaintext password storage is enabled!

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - with Cyrus SASL authentication
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
serf.
  - using serf 1.3.9 (compiled with 1.3.9)
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme

The following authentication credential caches are available:

* Plaintext cache in /home/nate/.subversion
* Gnome Keyring
* GPG-Agent
* KWallet (KDE)
]]]

Cheers,
Nathan

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