On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:55 AM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>
> Nathan Hartman wrote on Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:43 +00:00:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 9:33 AM Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> dsahlb...@apache.org wrote on Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 23:39:14 -0000:
> >> > A new script to store/update a password in the plain text password store
> >> >
> >> > * tools/client-side/store-plaintext-password.py
> >> >   As above
> >> >
> >> > Discussed on dev@:
> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/jfd0f5n2qpgnyc30dst6ycnkphcwf6mm
> >> >
> >> > Added:
> >> >     subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/store-plaintext-password.py
> >>  (with props)
> >>
> >> Presumably, now that it's been added, we should link it from somewhere
> >> to make it discoverable by users?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ah yes, it is on my todo list to link to it from the FAQ [1]. :-)
> >
> > [1] https://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#plaintext-passwords
>
> Added to staging in r1902704.  Hope you don't mind :)  Please take it
> from here if you have time.

Ah, you beat me to it. :-) LGTM. I was about to ask you:

> Should the entry link to the zsh script
> (https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/202008.mbox/%3C20200816130713.6abca815%40tarpaulin.shahaf.local2%3E)
> as well, as an alternative?  It might be useful for someone if their
> environment doesn't have Python installed or if they find the zsh script
> easier to audit.

I think it would be useful, and...

> (Well, I suppose it might make more sense to copy the script
> somewhere than to link to an immutable archives message with that
> subject line.)

...the place to put it is probably tools/client-side/ just like the
Python script.

Cheers,
Nathan

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