From: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Laszlo Papp <djszapi@archlinux.us>,
Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:18:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1976ea661002020118n2b86844k47a1064c028f439f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100202090538.GA28437@dcvr.yhbt.net>
> Having a --password option in the command line could work, but it's
> painfully insecure if there's any way for another regular user to view
> the process table. Not something I'd like to encourage...
>
Yes, it is insecure. "--password" seam undocumented.
> Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
> (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
> SVN uses?
>
> --
> Eric Wong
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-02 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-29 14:17 Implement --password option for git svn perl script Laszlo Papp
[not found] ` <001636ed7681994278047e4e4a6f@google.com>
2010-01-29 14:18 ` Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Laszlo Papp
2010-01-29 15:04 ` Frank Li
2010-02-01 16:16 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-02 4:15 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-02-02 4:30 ` Frank Li
2010-02-02 6:37 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-02 9:05 ` Implement --password option for git svn perl script Eric Wong
2010-02-02 9:18 ` Frank Li [this message]
2010-02-02 13:16 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-02 23:47 ` Frank Li
2010-02-04 7:45 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-05 23:01 ` Steve Diver
2010-02-08 6:29 ` Laszlo Papp
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