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Re: [http] Git error messages reveal password encoded in the URL

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2010, 21:10 UTC
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Dnia poniedziałek 19. lipca 2010 23:05, Jacob Helwig napisał:
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> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 14:02, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ketan Padegaonkar <ketanpadegaonkar@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> We use http to serve our git repos, in order for git to not ask me a
>>> username/password everytime,
>>
>> Errr... WTF?  Can't you configure SSH (use ssh-add, perhaps together with
>> tool such as keychain) to use public key based authentication?
>>
> 
> I don't think SSH/ssh-agent/pubkey would actually help, given that
> it's a https URL.  Unless I'm missing something here?

I was referring to 'we use http [...] _in order_ for git to not ask me a username/password everywhere'. I just noted that you can make git not ask a username/password everywhere when using ssh:// URLs.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Ketan PadegaonkarJul 19, 2010
  2. Jakub NarebskiJul 19, 2010
  3. Jacob HelwigJul 19, 2010
  4. Jakub NarebskiJul 19, 2010
  5. Jacob HelwigJul 19, 2010
  6. Ketan PadegaonkarJul 19, 2010
  7. Jakub NarebskiJul 20, 2010
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