SVN encrypted password store

It is a client issue. It warns you that the credentials used for the different servers are being stored in plain text. You can hide that warning or use an encrypted storage to cache the passwords. See: http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/2009/07/subversion-16-security-improvements

Automate Extended Validation (EV) code signing

There is no way to bypass the login dialog AFAIK, but what you can do is configure the SafeNet Authentication Client so it only asks it once per login session. I quote the SAC doc (found once installed in \ProgramFiles\SafeNet\Authentication\SAC\SACHelp.chm, chapter ‘Client Settings‘, ‘Enabling Client Logon‘) here: When single logon is enabled, users can access … Read more

How to login and authenticate to Postgresql after a fresh install?

There are two methods you can use. Both require creating a user and a database. By default psql connects to the database with the same name as the user. So there is a convention to make that the “user’s database”. And there is no reason to break that convention if your user only needs one … Read more

mcrypt is deprecated, what is the alternative?

It’s best practice to hash passwords so they are not decryptable. This makes things slightly more difficult for attackers that may have gained access to your database or files. If you must encrypt your data and have it decryptable, a guide to secure encryption/decryption is available at https://paragonie.com/white-paper/2015-secure-php-data-encryption. To summarize that link: Use Libsodium – … Read more

How to save password when using Subversion from the console

In ~/.subversion/config, you probably have store-passwords = no. Change it to yes (or just comment it out because it defaults to yes), and the next time you give Subversion your password it should save it. You might want to ensure that the owner and permissions of ~/.subversion/config are correct (no public or group access; 600).

How to prevent that the password to decrypt the private key has to be entered every time when using Git Bash on Windows?

For Windows users, just a note that this is how I set up the Git Bash environment to log me in once when I start it up. I edit my ~/.bashrc file: eval `ssh-agent` ssh-add So when I start Git Bash, it looks like: Welcome to Git (version 1.7.8-preview20111206) (etc) Agent pid 3376 Enter passphrase … Read more