From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding a challenge-response authentication method to git:// Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:36:46 +0200 Message-ID: <20080813163646.GO32184@machine.or.cz> References: <20080813162644.GC12200@cuci.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 13 18:38:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KTJMO-0000dB-9K for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:38:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756345AbYHMQgt (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:36:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756358AbYHMQgt (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:36:49 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:40177 "EHLO machine.or.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756312AbYHMQgs (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:36:48 -0400 Received: by machine.or.cz (Postfix, from userid 2001) id 2EBED393A2DD; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:36:46 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080813162644.GC12200@cuci.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:26:44PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote: > What are the opinions on adding a basic challenge-response type > authentication mechanism to the native git protocol? > I.e. the authentication would be a simple one, which uses > SHA1 (surprise ;-) to actually encrypt username/password/salt > and authenticate the user. > > I'm willing to do the work, if there are no objections. In the past, such an idea was dismissed with desire not to reimplement something ssh already implemented, and much better than we would. Petr "Pasky" Baudis