From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:43:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807091341230.5277@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20080709085651.GA23453@glandium.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Mike Hommey wrote:

> Note that http://user:pass@server/path/ /should/ work (but that would 
> need validation), though not a good idea on command line.

Well, now that the programs using URLs are all builtins, we can actually 
do something about it.  We can edit out the "user[:pass]@" part out of 
argv, which usually means that "ps" will not see it anymore.

Ciao,
Dscho