From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: David Renshaw <david@sandstorm.io>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bearer token authorization with HTTPS transport
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:57:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141231015738.GA9590@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141231014209.GA8789@peff.net>
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 08:42:09PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> Both should be pretty trivial. This approach seems conceptually cleaner
> to me, though it does mean you could not specify a bearer via the
> terminal prompt for a password (e.g., by cutting and pasting from
> elsewhere). I don't know if that is a problem or not. You could override
> it with:
>
> [credential]
> helper = '!f() {
> test "$1" = "get" || return
> echo >/dev/tty "No, really, give me a bearer token: "
> read token </dev/tty
> echo "bearer=$token"
> }; f'
>
> or similar.
And by the way, I'm not advocating that as something people would do on
the fly. I mean only that it would be easy to write a drop-in helper to
prompt people for a bearer token _before_ git makes it to the
username/password prompt.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-31 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-30 19:24 bearer token authorization with HTTPS transport David Renshaw
2014-12-30 23:56 ` brian m. carlson
2014-12-31 1:42 ` Jeff King
2014-12-31 1:57 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-01-06 2:41 ` brian m. carlson
2015-01-06 16:37 ` David Renshaw
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