[SVN-2445] Allow users to change passwords

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: svnserve
• Labels: needsdesign
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 17/Nov/05 20:29
• Updated: 18/Apr/08 19:21

Description

Currently, the only way to modify passwords for svnserve is for the
administrator to manually edit the plain-text file.  Which means (s)he needs to
know the passwords for all users.  The svn client ought to be able to modify
passwords for svnserve'd repositories, to reduce this issue.  (To eliminate it,
encode the password file and give svnadmin a command to create a user.)  My
arguments in favor are found in
<http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=40874>;
buddy confirmation in
<http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=41072>.  (I also
received confirmation off-list, but that doesn't fit the buddy system requirements.)

Original issue reported by dgale