From: Dan Langille (dalangil) <dalangil@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:50:18 GMT
Subject: Re: git-http-backend auth via Kerberos
Message-ID: <323AFE89-DD9C-4FA3-BED8-16F353A84386@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <D562883B-47D7-4569-B1BB-84BFBDCBA93A@cisco.com>

> On Dec 19, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Dan Langille (dalangil) <dalangil@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
>> You might also try specifying KrbMethodK5Passwd on explicitly.  I don't
>> happen to use that option (I use Kerberos to avoid passwords altogether)
>> so that might work for you.
>> 
>> I don't know what version of git you're using, but some older versions
>> will still prompt for a password whenever authentication fails.
>> Therefore, just because you're getting a password prompt doesn't mean
>> that providing a password will necessarily work.
> 
> How old is older?
> 
> $ git --version
> git version 1.9.3 (Apple Git-50)
> 
> Might that be it?  Hmmm.
> 

For the record, I tried git 2.2.1 and it gave identical results.