From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Li Subject: Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:18:52 +0800 Message-ID: <1976ea661002020118n2b86844k47a1064c028f439f@mail.gmail.com> References: <001636ed7681994278047e4e4a6f@google.com> <1976ea661001290704h3ed4761dscf95ba848b373555@mail.gmail.com> <1976ea661002012030h23aa415ek30aa6db23cb88d0e@mail.gmail.com> <20100202090538.GA28437@dcvr.yhbt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Laszlo Papp , Tay Ray Chuan , git@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Wong X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 02 10:19:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NcEvB-0004bt-Pf for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:19:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755006Ab0BBJS4 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 04:18:56 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.210.189]:63614 "EHLO mail-yx0-f189.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754620Ab0BBJSx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2010 04:18:53 -0500 Received: by yxe27 with SMTP id 27so1070146yxe.4 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:18:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wImXKSkL/fvSqhxnoFcYtqIoeehIQBio+CjmoKv04IU=; b=DtnPdwvnTHN14jwViOw9IoGlAzgkkmc6i7r4P+c9dVrdcALq6AYfIYLjImTieS61N9 a+haLoR33NTAw0D5l7+2mtpTObyvAkoHMYTTIU4fX6v0coJ5qKC5XLK7LIVvHdqAGifP ZZkdtfz4fUkvw4oje9S7GyOp/fwS/zJxC62sc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hCgudfI26UJCngUVfJPXox9es/Hnu46izgUlRTqeMq7h9U4Z69wmu71FT9MscjO01v gcUwhRQGH1FCNV7bFjCis6KMtrRcOvyDFLIg+rq+riUViVQlRTwvt4uxCwUjCan6UL6F HvTqa5eqCdS7cYEHNCnbmyqYCUPvQktPuFNgw= Received: by 10.150.87.9 with SMTP id k9mr8150745ybb.77.1265102332347; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:18:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100202090538.GA28437@dcvr.yhbt.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Having a --password option in the command line could work, but it's > painfully insecure if there's any way for another regular user to vie= w > the process table. =A0Not something I'd like to encourage... > Yes, it is insecure. "--password" seam undocumented. > Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on dis= k > (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cac= he > SVN uses? > > -- > Eric Wong >