Re: git/webdav is refusing to authenticate properly.

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Jan 13, 2009, 01:53 UTC
Message-ID: <200901121953.16183.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <496BE1E0.9010908@gmail.com>

On Monday 12 January 2009, Peter Spierenburg <ionlyusethisaddressforlists@gmail.com> wrote about 'Re: git/webdav is refusing to authenticate properly.':

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>C'mon, leave my password 'in-the-clear', in a text file on a networked
>box? That is the kind of prank a fourth-year student would try to pull
>on a freshman.
>
>How do I really do it?

AFAIK, that's the only way for now.

Personally, I'd welcome a patch that allowed fetch/push to prompt the user for a password, but I'm not holding my breath. If I want to limit access to a few users, I serve that repository over ssh and depend on ssh for authentication and filesystem permissions for authorization.

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