From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: encrypted netrc for Git (was: [Wishlist] could git tell which password it is asking when asking a password.)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:05:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bowxt0sh.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87aacygcfx.fsf@lifelogs.com
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:04:02 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
TZ> On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:59:09 +0200 Rémi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org> wrote:
RV> It would be interesting also to plug some sort of password-safe unto
RV> git, or some "git-agent".
TZ> This would also be really nice. ~/.netrc is not a great place to put
TZ> passwords for the HTTP transport. In GNU Emacs we have ~/.authinfo.gpg
TZ> with the same content as ~/.netrc but encrypted by GPG and thus more
TZ> secure (the user is either prompted for the password, if the file is
TZ> encrypted symmetrically, or the user simply loads their private key into
TZ> the GPG agent). I believe all this can be done with the GPGME library.
TZ> There's also the Secrets API on newer Gnome and KDE installs, which has
TZ> a pretty nice D-Bus interface.
TZ> But is this a libcurl feature request? Or can a Git plugin (an
TZ> alternate HTTPS transport maybe?) handle it?
Ping? I'd like to work on this if it seems like a feasible feature.
Thanks
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-01 13:59 [Wishlist] could git tell which password it is asking when asking a password Rémi Vanicat
2011-07-01 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-01 17:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-01 17:18 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-07-01 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-01 19:25 ` Rémi Vanicat
2011-07-01 20:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-01 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-01 20:48 ` Jeff King
2011-07-01 20:46 ` Jeff King
2011-07-01 17:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-14 14:05 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-07-14 15:00 ` encrypted netrc for Git (was: [Wishlist] could git tell which password it is asking when asking a password.) Jeff King
2011-07-15 17:08 ` encrypted netrc for Git Ted Zlatanov
2011-07-15 21:05 ` Jeff King
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