Re: [PATCH] Fix problem with authentification on http repository.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 10, 2008, 10:51 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807101248360.3135@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20080710072420.GA5167@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:43:07PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin 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.
> 
> Wouldn't there still be a race condition for publicly broadcasting your 
> password via ps?

Yes.  For a brief amount of time, but yes.

BTW I thought I remembered one program xxx'ing out the password via argv, but unfortunately I do not remember which one it was.

Anyway, was just an idea.

Ciao, Dscho