title: SVN encrypted password store
body: <p>I installed SVN on a Ubuntu machine and I can't get my head around something.</p>
  
  <p>Whenever I checkout something from the terminal I get this error about saving a non-encrypted password:</p>
  
  <pre><code>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  ATTENTION!  Your password for authentication realm:
  
     &lt;[...]&gt; Subversion Repository
  
  can only be stored to disk
  unencrypted!  You are advised to
  configure your system so that
  Subversion can store passwords
  encrypted, if possible.  See the
  documentation for details.
  
  You can avoid future appearances of
  this warning by setting the value of
  the 'store-plaintext-passwords' option
  to either 'yes' or 'no' in
  '/home/[...]/.subversion/servers'.
  -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I goggled it a bit but I couldn't find anything useful. I found one topic where it said this was a client issue, not a server one, but I'm still not convinced.</p>
  
  <p>It says "configure your system"; what exactly does it mean by that? The server or the client? If I'm the server, is there anything I can do about it? besides hiding the warning (like it says)...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>