I just came across an annoying warning that subversion gave me when checking out a module:
$ svn co https://my.svnserver.tld/svn/repo repo
Authentication realm: https://my.svnserver.tld
Client certificate filename: /home/user/...
Passphrase for '/home/user/...:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ATTENTION! Your passphrase for client certificate:
/home/user/...
can only be stored to disk unencrypted! You are advised to configure
your system so that Subversion can store passphrase encrypted, if
possible. See the documentation for details.
You can avoid future appearances of this warning by setting the value
of the 'store-ssl-client-cert-pp-plaintext' option to either 'yes' or
'no' in '/home/user/.subversion/servers'.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Store passphrase unencrypted (yes/no)? no
And since I don't like to store my passwords in plaintext but I don't want to type it in for each and every svn command I issue, I looked up a way to store my access slightly more securely.