Hi! Short story: it seems for me, subversion-1.8.0 (and, perhaps, 1.7.0) has broken support for plaintext password storage.
Long story: I upgraded to 1.8.0, built it under FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE using fresh ports collection. I have local repository and run svnserve to access it. All runs just fine except "svn" command does not cache plaintext passwords at client's side. After upgrade, I removed /root/.subversion/ directory and svn recreated it for me. Then, I've edited /root/.subversion/servers to include the following settings to the [global] section: store-passwords = yes store-auth-creds = yes store-plaintext-passwords = yes After successful authorization, svn creates new file /root/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/79b9e861c3e4e52680538685b354a10a starting with lines: K 8 passtype V 9 gpg-agent K 15 svn:realmstring Please note passtype is "gpg-agent", not "simple". I do not have gpg-agent installed, nor need it. Of course, password is not cached and svn asks for it every time. And yes, I need to cache root password. In plaintext. You can assume the whole file system is encrypted. Is it a regression in recent subversion or just me doing something wrong? Please CC: me when replying as I'm not in the list.
