is there a way to recover a password from local cache? The password has to be stored somewhere because I can run
svn co http://my.svn.server/foo
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On Windows, Subversion stores the auth data in %APPDATA%\Subversion\auth
. The passwords however are stored encrypted, not in plaintext.
You can decrypt those, but only if you log in to Windows as the same user for which the auth data was saved.
Someone even wrote a tool to decrypt those. Never tried the tool myself so I don't know how well it works, but you might want to try it anyway:
http://www.leapbeyond.com/ric/TSvnPD/
Update: In TortoiseSVN 1.9 and later, you can do it without any additional tools:
Settings Dialog
-> Saved Data
, then click the "Clear...
" button right of the text "Authentication Data
". A new dialog pops up, showing all stored authentication data where you can chose which one(s) to clear. Instead of clearing, hold down the Shift
and Ctrl
button, and then double click
on the list. A new column is shown in the dialog which shows the password in clear.
For those interested in the OS X solution for apps like Intelli-J where authorizations are stored by OSX:
Much easier than having to try to decrypt a password :-)
Your SVN passwords in Ubuntu (12.04) are in:
~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/
However in newer versions they are encrypted, as earlier someone mentioned. To find gnome-keyring passwords, I suggest You to use 'gkeyring' program.
To install it on Ubuntu – add repository :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kampka/ppa
sudo apt-get update
Install it:
sudo apt-get install gkeyring
And run as following:
gkeyring --id 15 --output=name,secret
Try different key ids to find pair matching what you are looking for. Thanks to kampka for the soft.
Just use this this decrypter to decrypt your locally cached username & password.
By default, TortoiseSVN stores your cached credentials inside files in the %APPDATA%\Subversion\auth\svn.simple directory. The passwords are encrypted using the Windows Data Protection API, with a key tied to your user account. This tool reads the files and uses the API to decrypt your passwords
svn password decryptor
In ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple/
you should find a file with a long hexadecimal name. The password is in there in plaintext.
If there is more than one file you'll need to find that one that references the server you need the password for.