* Implement --password option for git svn perl script
@ 2010-01-29 14:17 Laszlo Papp
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From: Laszlo Papp @ 2010-01-29 14:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git; +Cc: normalperson, lznuaa
Hello,
It would be nice to use --pasword option on windows, like --username
option with git svn facility. I can't handle SVN repository with git
svn on windows if I'd like to authenticate myself with other user than
the default domain name of my windows.
If I use --username option, Frank Li said me it's not enough in
TortoiseGIT to provide a popup facility to type the password related
to the set --username option.
What's your opinion/suggestion/recommendation ?
Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp
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@ 2010-01-29 14:18 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-01-29 15:04 ` Frank Li
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From: Laszlo Papp @ 2010-01-29 14:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git; +Cc: normalperson, lznuaa@gmail.com - Chinma/Shanghai/31
Hello,
It would be nice to use --pasword option on windows, like --username
option with git svn facility. I can't handle SVN repository with git
svn on windows if I'd like to authenticate myself with other user than
the default domain name of my windows.
If I use --username option, Frank Li said me it's not enough in
TortoiseGIT to provide a popup facility to type the password related
to the set --username option.
What's your opinion/suggestion/recommendation ?
Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp
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* Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
2010-01-29 14:18 ` Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Laszlo Papp
@ 2010-01-29 15:04 ` Frank Li
2010-02-01 16:16 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-02 4:15 ` Tay Ray Chuan
0 siblings, 2 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Frank Li @ 2010-01-29 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Laszlo Papp; +Cc: git, normalperson
>
> If I use --username option, Frank Li said me it's not enough in
> TortoiseGIT to provide a popup facility to type the password related
> to the set --username option.
>
I prefer git-svn can provide environment to launch a external
application to input password like open ssh.
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* Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
2010-01-29 15:04 ` Frank Li
@ 2010-02-01 16:16 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-02 4:15 ` Tay Ray Chuan
1 sibling, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Laszlo Papp @ 2010-02-01 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frank Li; +Cc: git, normalperson
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If I use --username option, Frank Li said me it's not enough in
>> TortoiseGIT to provide a popup facility to type the password related
>> to the set --username option.
>>
>
> I prefer git-svn can provide environment to launch a external
> application to input password like open ssh.
>
No perl guru among the volunteers if the original author is not available ? :(
Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp
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* Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
2010-01-29 15:04 ` Frank Li
2010-02-01 16:16 ` Laszlo Papp
@ 2010-02-02 4:15 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-02-02 4:30 ` Frank Li
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From: Tay Ray Chuan @ 2010-02-02 4:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frank Li; +Cc: Laszlo Papp, git, normalperson
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I prefer git-svn can provide environment to launch a external
> application to input password like open ssh.
how about users who are authenticating over http with basic and
digest? How does one go about launching an external app for password
input in those cases?
Please don't take this as a criticism of your personal preference. I
believe this feature would make things convenient for users who want
it - those who don't, nothing changes.
Even ssh (via ssh-keygen) lets you specify the passphrase at
command-run time. Others include htpasswd, htdigest...
--
Cheers,
Ray Chuan
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* Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
2010-02-02 4:15 ` Tay Ray Chuan
@ 2010-02-02 4:30 ` Frank Li
2010-02-02 6:37 ` Laszlo Papp
0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Frank Li @ 2010-02-02 4:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tay Ray Chuan; +Cc: Laszlo Papp, git, normalperson
2010/2/2 Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I prefer git-svn can provide environment to launch a external
>> application to input password like open ssh.
>
> how about users who are authenticating over http with basic and
> digest? How does one go about launching an external app for password
> input in those cases?
There are not problem if run git svn clone from console.
But a gui application, such tortoisegit, launch "git svn clone" and
capture git svn clone output.
If passwd needed, git svn clone will read character from console but
GUI application don't know that and wait git svn output.
So there are dead lock till timeout and fail.
The same problem has been happen at ssh. But OpenSSH provide a
option, environment SSH_ASKPASS, which point to a application. when
passwd need, openssh launch this GUI application, user can input
passwd at this GUI application.
The basic requirement is git svn can provide a way to prompt a dialog
box to input passwd.
Frank Li
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* Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
2010-02-02 4:30 ` Frank Li
@ 2010-02-02 6:37 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-02 9:05 ` Implement --password option for git svn perl script Eric Wong
0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Laszlo Papp @ 2010-02-02 6:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frank Li; +Cc: Tay Ray Chuan, git, normalperson
> The basic requirement is git svn can provide a way to prompt a dialog
> box to input passwd.
Yeah, it's a very basic use case, but I don't know whether there is a
workaround for it somehow, maybe perl gurus or git svn users could
help more...
My company, where there are windows users (95% of the company), would
like to use TortoiseGIT as a graphical client for SVN server
repositories as an SVN client, no other way by us, so it'd be high
priority :) So I've got a beer for any volunteer, thanks :P
Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp
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* Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script
2010-02-02 6:37 ` Laszlo Papp
@ 2010-02-02 9:05 ` Eric Wong
2010-02-02 9:18 ` Frank Li
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From: Eric Wong @ 2010-02-02 9:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Laszlo Papp; +Cc: Frank Li, Tay Ray Chuan, git
Laszlo Papp <djszapi@archlinux.us> wrote:
> > The basic requirement is git svn can provide a way to prompt a dialog
> > box to input passwd.
>
> Yeah, it's a very basic use case, but I don't know whether there is a
> workaround for it somehow, maybe perl gurus or git svn users could
> help more...
>
> My company, where there are windows users (95% of the company), would
> like to use TortoiseGIT as a graphical client for SVN server
> repositories as an SVN client, no other way by us, so it'd be high
> priority :) So I've got a beer for any volunteer, thanks :P
Hi, (fixed subject so I don't mistake it for junk again)
I don't know (and have no way to test) how to deal with input dialogs
for reading a password on Windows (nor any sort of IPC). Somebody else
will have to implement it.
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 view
the process table. Not something I'd like to encourage...
Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
(at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
SVN uses?
--
Eric Wong
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* Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script
2010-02-02 9:05 ` Implement --password option for git svn perl script Eric Wong
@ 2010-02-02 9:18 ` Frank Li
2010-02-02 13:16 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-05 23:01 ` Steve Diver
2 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Frank Li @ 2010-02-02 9:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Wong; +Cc: Laszlo Papp, Tay Ray Chuan, git
> 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 view
> the process table. Not something I'd like to encourage...
>
Yes, it is insecure. "--password" seam undocumented.
> Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
> (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
> SVN uses?
>
> --
> Eric Wong
>
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* Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script
2010-02-02 9:05 ` Implement --password option for git svn perl script Eric Wong
2010-02-02 9:18 ` Frank Li
@ 2010-02-02 13:16 ` Laszlo Papp
2010-02-02 23:47 ` Frank Li
2010-02-05 23:01 ` Steve Diver
2 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Laszlo Papp @ 2010-02-02 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Wong; +Cc: Frank Li, Tay Ray Chuan, git
> Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
> (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
> SVN uses?
@Frank Li
@Eric Wong
Maybe you can check whether how TortoiseSVN or SVN client code handle
this situation, because it's the same server, but 'just' the client
side is different a little bit, but the same situation happen there in
case TortoiseSVN a popup menu appears when you try to authenticate
yourself.
Second way is to ask on the SVN mailing list, how they use it, or
maybe I'm totally wrong with it :P
Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp
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* Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script
2010-02-02 13:16 ` Laszlo Papp
@ 2010-02-02 23:47 ` Frank Li
2010-02-04 7:45 ` Laszlo Papp
0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Frank Li @ 2010-02-02 23:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Laszlo Papp; +Cc: Eric Wong, Tay Ray Chuan, git
Is it possible use OpenSSH method to let GUI to input passwd.
environment SSH_ASKPASS, which point to a application. when
passwd need, openssh launch this GUI application, user can input
passwd at this GUI application.
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* Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script
2010-02-02 23:47 ` Frank Li
@ 2010-02-04 7:45 ` Laszlo Papp
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Laszlo Papp @ 2010-02-04 7:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frank Li; +Cc: Eric Wong, Tay Ray Chuan, git
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible use OpenSSH method to let GUI to input passwd.
> environment SSH_ASKPASS, which point to a application. when
> passwd need, openssh launch this GUI application, user can input
> passwd at this GUI application.
>
What do you mean ? Should I install TortoiseGIT with openssh client,
so should I need to choose this option from the 2 facilities ?
Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp
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* Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script
2010-02-02 9:05 ` Implement --password option for git svn perl script Eric Wong
2010-02-02 9:18 ` Frank Li
2010-02-02 13:16 ` Laszlo Papp
@ 2010-02-05 23:01 ` Steve Diver
2010-02-08 6:29 ` Laszlo Papp
2 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Steve Diver @ 2010-02-05 23:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Wong; +Cc: Laszlo Papp, Frank Li, Tay Ray Chuan, git
On 02/02/2010 09:05, Eric Wong wrote:
>
> Laszlo Papp<djszapi@archlinux.us> wrote:
>>> The basic requirement is git svn can provide a way to prompt a dialog
>>> box to input passwd.
>>
>> Yeah, it's a very basic use case, but I don't know whether there is a
>> workaround for it somehow, maybe perl gurus or git svn users could
>> help more...
>>
>> My company, where there are windows users (95% of the company), would
>> like to use TortoiseGIT as a graphical client for SVN server
>> repositories as an SVN client, no other way by us, so it'd be high
>> priority :) So I've got a beer for any volunteer, thanks :P
>
> Hi, (fixed subject so I don't mistake it for junk again)
>
> I don't know (and have no way to test) how to deal with input dialogs
> for reading a password on Windows (nor any sort of IPC). Somebody else
> will have to implement it.
>
> 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 view
> the process table. Not something I'd like to encourage...
>
> Since SVN already caches passwords in a mostly secure location on disk
> (at least on *nix), shouldn't git svn be able to use the password cache
> SVN uses?
>
Tortoise, along with at least one other Windows GUI utilizes the Putty
suite as a helper app for key chain and password handling, and needs to
be loaded prior to any SSH operations. Tortoise have gone so far as to
rewrite plink (Tortoiseplink.exe)so that that a prompt for the password
is given, but this is undocumented AFAIK.
Otherwise, it is an unfortunate fact that a DOS console session is
invoked whenever openSSH is used. For the average Windows user this is a
scary occurrence, and is one of the obstacles that prevents wider casual
take up of Git on Windows IMHO.
I understand that it comes down to a problem with communication between
a dialogue and an SSH client via STDOUT. I believe Dscho might have some
insight into this as it is a recurrent topic on the MsysGit tracker.
Steve
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* Re: Implement --password option for git svn perl script
2010-02-05 23:01 ` Steve Diver
@ 2010-02-08 6:29 ` Laszlo Papp
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From: Laszlo Papp @ 2010-02-08 6:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Steve Diver; +Cc: Eric Wong, Frank Li, Tay Ray Chuan, git
Any workflow in this task ? :((
Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp
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