How to remove warning about storing unencrypted password after committing file in svn

Question

Every time I commit a file in svn I get the following message:

ATTENTION! Your password for authentication realm:

http://domainname.com:8

Answer 1

The subversion client is only asking for authentication because the server requires it. To get rid of the authentication requirement, you'll have to change the server's configuration (e.g., in Apache, get rid of AuthType, AuthName, and AuthUserFile). You can use other authentication methods which do not require passwords (for example, client certificates).

If you just want to get rid of the save password unencrypted prompt, you can set store-plaintext-passwords=off (by editing ~/.subversion/config) or you can make encrypted passwords work by getting (on Unices) the GNOME keyring or KDE wallet running. On Windows, SVN should automatically use built-in NTFS encryption; on Mac OS X, the Keyring. See the Client Credentials section of the SVN Manual for further details.

You could also encrypt your home directory on Unix. Then the credentials would be encrypted as well (but of course available to any program running as you or root while you're logged in, similar to the NTFS encryption).

If you don't want SVN to store passwords at all, encrypted or not, set store-passwords=no in the SVN config file.