My thought was that if you had a password you didn't care about you could put it in the config. It does ask you for a password with getpass, It compiles under cygwin, I havent tried it under windows. However the man page for getpass shows the source so coding up getpass directly isn't a big deal. Junio, I'm new to this patch game and using Thunderbird. What's the best way to wrap the patch? -Mike Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > Disclaimer: if you are offended by constructive criticism, or likely to > answer with insults to the comments I offer, please stop reading this mail > now (and please do not answer my mail, either). :-) > > Still with me? Good. Nice to meet you. > > Just for the record: responding to a patch is my strongest way of saying > that I appreciate your work. > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Mike Gaffney wrote: > >> Currently git over http only works with a .netrc file which required >> that you store your password on the file system in plaintext. This >> commit adds to configuration options for http for a username and an >> optional password. If a http.username is set, then the .netrc file is >> ignored and the username is used instead. If a http.password is set, >> then that is used as well, otherwise the user is prompted for their >> password. > > From the subject, I would have expected a way to type in the password > instead of storing it. (Think getpass()... which would pose problems > with Windows support, of course.) > > FWIW by having it in .git/config (which is most likely more world-readable > than $HOME/.netrc ever will be) does not provide any security over .netrc. > > And I doubt that http.username is a good choice: what if you have multiple > http:// URLs with different usernames/passwords? So would it not make > more sense to make this remote.<name>.user and ...password? > > Ciao, > Dscho -- -Mike Gaffney (http://rdocul.us) -- 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
