From users-return-6869-apmail-subversion-users-archive=subversion.apache.org@subversion.apache.org Fri Jan 07 16:44:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-subversion-users-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 81410 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2011 16:44:26 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 7 Jan 2011 16:44:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 19804 invoked by uid 500); 7 Jan 2011 16:44:26 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-subversion-users-archive@subversion.apache.org Received: (qmail 19689 invoked by uid 500); 7 Jan 2011 16:44:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@subversion.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list users@subversion.apache.org Received: (qmail 19679 invoked by uid 99); 7 Jan 2011 16:44:25 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:44:25 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=10.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,RFC_ABUSE_POST,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: 208.10.26.74 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of lesmikesell@gmail.com) Received: from [208.10.26.74] (HELO mailmx.futuresource.com) (208.10.26.74) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:44:16 +0000 Received: from ns4.futuresource.com ([208.10.26.50]) by mailmx.futuresource.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p07GhMbT022459 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:43:22 -0600 Received: from [172.22.181.98] ([172.22.181.98]) by ns4.futuresource.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p07GhLIF020680 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:43:21 -0600 Message-ID: <4D2742CE.8050006@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:43:58 -0600 From: Les Mikesell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: svnadmin create and not being method agnostic References: <1294070985.7799.5.camel@nimble.325Bayport> <1294088179.7799.9.camel@nimble.325Bayport> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.70 on 208.10.26.74 X-Greylist: Default is to whitelist mail, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mailmx.futuresource.com [208.10.26.74]); Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:43:22 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 1/4/2011 8:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > This is a very large and longstanding issue for me and others, and has > led to clients of mine rejecting Subversion outright. And it looks > like a legacy of Subversion's re-implementation of CVS, described as > "CVS done right". CVS security was even worse. I'd say instead that it looks like a lack of a suitable cross-platform security library - or more specifically a lack of a suitable OS facility in Linux to manage per-user application passwords. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com