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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:32:27 -0700
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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.