On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 03:47:18PM +0200, Andreas Krey wrote: > there is an interesting wart around prompt.c - > PROMPT_ECHO isn't used in invoking an external helper program. > > Thus, if I clone something on https (which requires auth for that), > and have SSH_ASKPASS set, I will get two GUI *password* prompts, > even though the first one will indicate in the title that it *is* > asking for the username. > > But basically, given the trivial protocol of SSH_ASKPASS, there > doesn't seem to be any way to properly fix this without support > from any desktop environment that sets SSH_ASKPASS. :-( Yep. If you haven't seen it, there's more discussion in this recent thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/20190429234028.GA24069@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > The best I can currently tell my users is to use the > [credentials "https:/..."] > configuration to fix the username. Yes, that works. Or a credential helper could prompt with a better interface (but AFAIK, the only one written that does so is the Windows one). > But if we can't fix this, maybe we can at least point this out in the > docs? Sounds like a good suggestion. Where would you look for it? In the description of GIT_ASKPASS / core.askpass? -Peff
