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From: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: GIT/SSH_ASKPASS used for username input in https:// URLs
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 15:47:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190506134718.GA12803@inner.h.apk.li> (raw)

Hi everyone,

there is an interesting wart around prompt.c -
PROMPT_ECHO isn't used in invoking an external helper program.

Thus, if I clone something on https (which requires auth for that),
and have SSH_ASKPASS set, I will get two GUI *password* prompts,
even though the first one will indicate in the title that it *is*
asking for the username.

But basically, given the trivial protocol of SSH_ASKPASS, there
doesn't seem to be any way to properly fix this without support
from any desktop environment that sets SSH_ASKPASS. :-(

The best I can currently tell my users is to use the
   [credentials "https:/..."]
configuration to fix the username.

But if we can't fix this, maybe we can at least point this out in the docs?

- Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800

             reply	other threads:[~2019-05-06 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-06 13:47 Andreas Krey [this message]
2019-05-07  7:36 ` GIT/SSH_ASKPASS used for username input in https:// URLs Jeff King

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