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

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2010, 07:46 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTilYeKkJlUaB7zRgvIR_OyzrabWG1iPLbmrvkAqu@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201007200241.46972.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hi:

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dnia wtorek 20. lipca 2010 01:25, Ketan Padegaonkar napisał:

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> Can't you use ~/.netrc file[1] instead?  As far as I see this would not
> show password info on error.  Not that the current situation should
> not be fixed, but it might be worthwhile workaround for a time.
>
> The ~/.netrc file would look like this for your example:
>
>  machine host
>  login user
>  password pass
>
> You should of course `chmod 600 ~/.netrc`
>
> [1] This is unfortunately underdocumented: only this documentation
> Documentation/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt mentions ~/.netrc
> file.  I think that handling the $HOME/.netrc is done by the curl
> library that git uses, see libcurl-tutorial(3) manpage.

+1

This is the only way I know of to "hide" your password.

Of course, depending on your authentication scheme, your efforts for this setup may prove worthless.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan