From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:45:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching to Git
Message-ID: <51dd1af80803061645w5261163dlf4171b8c95e0792a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47D06B57.4090607@vilain.net>

On 3/6/08, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > Yes see [1] it works but the list members wanted some tool to manage
> > passwords too which I didn't pursue since it worked for me in its
> > present form.
> >
> > 1.
> http://lists-archives.org/git/640574-authentication-support-for-pserver.html
>
> Cool, well done. Having re-read that thread, I think Martin Langhoff's
> response
> http://lists-archives.org/git/641074-authentication-support-for-pserver.html
> is the most pertinent. I didn't see any requests for an actual tool to
> be written, just that the password file be separate to the git config
> file, and/or use crypt() to store its contents. Perhaps point them at
> "htpasswd" if they want a tool :)

I was refering to http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg53054.html

But yes, your crypt() method should do. I made some cleanups to your
patch so it works now, you can pull the changes from
git://git.nix.is/avar/git if you'd like.

I'm submitting this to the git list again.

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