From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>,
jean.guyader@linkea.org, git@vger.kernel.org,
Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:32:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vk5fuqjn8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080710072420.GA5167@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:24:20 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> > Note that http://user:pass@server/path/ /should/ work (but that would
>> > need validation), though not a good idea on command line.
>>
>> Well, now that the programs using URLs are all builtins, we can actually
>> do something about it. We can edit out the "user[:pass]@" part out of
>> argv, which usually means that "ps" will not see it anymore.
>
> Wouldn't there still be a race condition for publicly broadcasting your
> password via ps?
In addition, I think on some Unices overwriting argv[0] does not have the
effect Dscho is aiming for.
I thought we do discourage [:pass] part in our documentation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-10 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-29 22:26 [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository jean.guyader
2007-09-29 23:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-29 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-29 23:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-30 0:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09 5:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09 5:51 ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-09 6:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09 7:53 ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-09 8:04 ` Daniel Stenberg
2008-07-09 8:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-09 8:56 ` Mike Hommey
2008-07-09 11:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 7:24 ` Jeff King
2008-07-10 7:32 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-10 8:47 ` Jeff King
2008-07-10 10:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-10 11:30 ` Andreas Ericsson
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