From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
To: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Kyle Neath <kneath@gmail.com>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:48:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPQNSbrjNR73GxE4xXFPqaVSUOaa5Drt4Je+zGY82rzajQxuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEBDL5VtVZcmQnj2CH7XzZ0YV_X61gO69-dXriGiYsAqk=NLPg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:32 PM, John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> wrote:
> [Added back some of the CC's]
>
> Ted: we don't usually cull the CC list on the git mailing list.
>
> 2011/9/9 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> [snip]
>> MJG> ... and one for Git on Windows? It seems we're lacking both Win and OS X
>> MJG> developers here.
>>
>> Windows doesn't have a standard keychain service, does it?
>
> No, it doesn't, but you can use the wincrypt API which allows you to
> at least encrypt the password from the user's login credentials. In
> particular, CryptProtectData() and CryptUnprotectData(). That way you
> can at least have the password stored encrypted on disk.
Actually, it seems recent Windows versions does have a credential
manager, including an API:
http://www.yanzzee.com/2009/09/windows-keychain.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374731(v=VS.85).aspx#credentials_management_functions
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-09 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-07 5:33 The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7 Kyle Neath
2011-09-07 7:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-07 8:11 ` Kyle Neath
2011-09-07 11:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-07 12:56 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-07 20:14 ` Kyle Neath
2011-09-07 21:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-07 23:01 ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-07 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-08 13:17 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-08 15:02 ` John Szakmeister
2011-09-08 19:18 ` Jeff King
2011-09-09 8:05 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-09 8:12 ` Miles Bader
2011-09-09 18:27 ` Jeff King
2011-09-08 19:10 ` Jeff King
2011-09-09 8:06 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-09 10:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-09 10:32 ` John Szakmeister
2011-09-09 10:48 ` Erik Faye-Lund [this message]
2011-09-09 10:54 ` John Szakmeister
2011-09-09 13:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-09 13:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-09 18:34 ` Jeff King
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