Hi, On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > Note that http://user:pass@server/path/ /should/ work (but that > > > would need validation), though not a good idea on command line. > > > > Well, now that the programs using URLs are all builtins, we can > > actually do something about it. We can edit out the "user[:pass]@" > > part out of argv, which usually means that "ps" will not see it > > anymore. > > Wouldn't there still be a race condition for publicly broadcasting your > password via ps? Yes. For a brief amount of time, but yes. BTW I thought I remembered one program xxx'ing out the password via argv, but unfortunately I do not remember which one it was. Anyway, was just an idea. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
