From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." Subject: Re: git/webdav is refusing to authenticate properly. Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:53:15 -0600 Message-ID: <200901121953.16183.bss@iguanasuicide.net> References: <137c54e10901121354l284f11ag675abb003fc83e93@mail.gmail.com> <496BE1E0.9010908@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1544254.3pxXQcpkyP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Spierenburg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 13 02:54:45 2009 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 1LMYUN-0006SR-NT for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:54:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753913AbZAMBxT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:53:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753602AbZAMBxT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:53:19 -0500 Received: from eastrmmtao105.cox.net ([68.230.240.47]:50609 "EHLO eastrmmtao105.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751033AbZAMBxS (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:53:18 -0500 Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao105.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20090113015317.SBZD4139.eastrmmtao105.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:53:17 -0500 Received: from localhost ([72.204.50.125]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id 2ptG1b00K2i4SyG02ptHgu; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:53:17 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=YCmOk6km9xMA:10 a=NEuutZkdHscA:10 a=Fq1VQ0LPAAAA:8 a=9s7QVCMrmdqOmRW7i1wA:9 a=VYcHS6hOEo6o5gHsQUGs4zM7i_cA:4 a=oxVw0hCxh30A:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=T3brmoaXcPoA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 a=rGYsbNlBCWO13mK0pXUA:9 a=LAwQRtXjrMG9XvX58ywyxDCkyNQA:4 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Received: from bss by localhost with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LMYSy-000PWs-9q; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:53:16 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <496BE1E0.9010908@gmail.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --nextPart1544254.3pxXQcpkyP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 12 January 2009, Peter Spierenburg=20 wrote about 'Re: git/webdav is=20 refusing to authenticate properly.': >C'mon, leave my password 'in-the-clear', in a text file on a networked >box? That is the kind of prank a fourth-year student would try to pull >on a freshman. > >How do I really do it? AFAIK, that's the only way for now. Personally, I'd welcome a patch that allowed fetch/push to prompt the user= =20 for a password, but I'm not holding my breath. If I want to limit access=20 to a few users, I serve that repository over ssh and depend on ssh for=20 authentication and filesystem permissions for authorization. =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ =20 --nextPart1544254.3pxXQcpkyP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAklr9AwACgkQ55pqL7G1QFlxOACfbZnVFV55Wea9l2XffpJEjDri TQIAnijtczyuK0ei61/9ZpSSOYESWTjR =3ZMW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1544254.3pxXQcpkyP--