From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Zlatanov Subject: Re: The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:31:20 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87boutx2on.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4E6769E3.4070003@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20110908191053.GA16064@sigill.intra.peff.net> <4E69C8F0.9070204@drmicha.warpmail.net> <87pqjaxbrm.fsf@lifelogs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: , Kyle Neath , Jeff King To: John Szakmeister X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 09 15:44:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R21Na-0007d5-Vg for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:44:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759106Ab1IINoR (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2011 09:44:17 -0400 Received: from cer-mailmxol2.jumptrading.com ([208.78.214.25]:50833 "EHLO cer-mailmxol2.jumptrading.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759100Ab1IINoQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2011 09:44:16 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtcGAEUUak7AqF0N/2dsb2JhbABBoVEDhzOBUgEBBW4LEAsNFA0BARYPAQQ1ARMOBR6/YYNiAQSDBwSHbZBpFowE Received: from unknown (HELO chiexchange02.w2k.jumptrading.com) ([192.168.93.13]) by cer-mailmxol2.jumptrading.com with ESMTP; 09 Sep 2011 13:31:26 +0000 Received: from internalsmtp.w2k.jumptrading.com (10.2.4.29) by chiexchange02.w2k.jumptrading.com (10.2.4.71) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.2.176.0; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:31:25 -0500 Received: from tzlatanov-ubuntu-desktop.jumptrading.com ([10.2.14.81]) by internalsmtp.w2k.jumptrading.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:31:25 -0500 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes In-Reply-To: (John Szakmeister's message of "Fri, 9 Sep 2011 06:32:25 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Sep 2011 13:31:25.0535 (UTC) FILETIME=[C5BB16F0:01CC6EF4] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 06:32:25 -0400 John Szakmeister wrote: JS> [Added back some of the CC's] JS> Ted: we don't usually cull the CC list on the git mailing list. Sorry, I followed up via GMane (a NNTP interface to the mailing list). I'll use `r'eply instead of `f'ollowup. I actually set Mail-Copies-To: never Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes because I hate getting CC'd on discussions I already follow via GMane. But that's just my preference :) JS> 2011/9/9 Ted Zlatanov : JS> [snip] MJG> ... and one for Git on Windows? It seems we're lacking both Win and OS X MJG> developers here. >> >> Windows doesn't have a standard keychain service, does it? JS> No, it doesn't, but you can use the wincrypt API which allows you to JS> at least encrypt the password from the user's login credentials. In JS> particular, CryptProtectData() and CryptUnprotectData(). That way you JS> can at least have the password stored encrypted on disk. I don't think that's sufficient but could be wrong. Ted