From: ervion <ervion@cryptolab.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, jch2355@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Https password present in git output
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 01:36:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bd57007f21ab1154d3bcc1e9bc8664e@cryptolab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daXq-WBEYTyi2M7kMoZtQCYgucCRQ=GFVt8U_H_vRYyZPw@mail.gmail.com>
I completely agree that it is not a head-on-fire kind of problem, there
are ways to avoid it.
Simply nice to have.
It is in fact the case, that git fetch output is scrubbed, sorry I did
not notice previously.
But (on my device: git version 2.9.0 arch linux) git push is not.
$ git push origin --all
Results in:
/---/
To https://username:password@domeen.com/git/repo.git
xxxxxxx..zzzzzzz master -> master
On 13.07.2016 21:16, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> wrote:
>> ervion <ervion@cryptolab.net> writes:
>>
>>> Sometimes using ssh is not possible and saving https password in
>>> plain
>>> text to disk may be desireable
>>> (in case of encrypted disk it would be equivalent security with
>>> caching password in memory).
>>>
>>> One possibility for this in git is to save remote in the
>>> https://username:password@domain.com/repo.git format.
>>
>> Wasn't netrc support added exactly because users do not want to do
>> this?
>
> Interesting. Even with "auth in URL", I seem to get this:
>
> $ git fetch -v -v https://gitster:pass@github.com/git/git
> refs/tags/v2.9.1
> From https://github.com/git/git
> * tag v2.9.1 -> FETCH_HEAD
>
> Notice that "From $URL" has the userinfo (3.2.1 in RFC 3986) scrubbed.
>
> If you are seeing somewhere we forgot to scrub userinfo in a similar
> way in
> the output, we should. Where do you see "present in git OUTPUT" as you
> said in the subject? What command with what options exactly and in what
> part of the output?
>
> Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-13 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-13 17:26 Https password present in git output ervion
2016-07-13 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-13 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-13 22:36 ` ervion [this message]
2016-07-13 23:36 ` Jeff King
2016-07-13 18:16 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
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